Community leader backs Bromberg

Noaki Schwartz

BALBOA ISLAND -- In a political twist, community leader Jack

Callahan has announced he will not run for the district’s City Council

seat and will put his weight behind candidate Steve Bromberg.

Shortly after Mayor John Noyes’ declared that he would not be in the

running, both Bromberg and Callahan were heavily lobbied by local

residents to run for the soon-to-be-vacated seat. The two, who are good

friends, alternately encouraged each other to step up.

Until recently, however, neither was very committal.

Then Bromberg cleared the air by announcing that he would run. This

prompted Callahan to think seriously about his own position, finally

deciding to take a step back.

“Jack and I discussed my running, and I told him this is something I

was going to do,” Bromberg said. “He was not going to run against me and

said he was looking forward to joining my campaign committee.”

Both men have at one time or another held nearly every leadership

position on Balboa Island.

So far, the only other candidate to announce intentions to run has

been Big Canyon resident Robert Schoonmaker, who also ran against Noyes

four years ago.