While moving from Mayor Pro Tem to Mayor in San Juan Capistrano is certainly no guaranteed step, it happens pretty regularly.
So it wasn't unusual that Mayor Pro Tem Larry Kramer became Mayor earlier this month ... except for what happened a year earlier.
As we've reported, when Kramer and John Taylor were elected a year ago, it created a new council majority with Sam Allevato. Those three voted against then Mayor Pro Tem Laura Freese becoming Mayor because she'd supported a one-time political ally, Lon Uso.
Uso didn't get along with Allevato.
But when the three-man majority supported Allevato for Mayor over Freese, the two new councilmen, alluded that Freese would have her day in the Mayor's chair. Serving as Mayor in Capistrano is largely ceremonial and rotates among elected council members.
Here's what was said a year ago, according to Track 1019 in SJC archives:
At 1:55 (Kramer) "I expect that in some near future you [Freese] are going to be Mayor."
At 3:14 (Taylor) "I want to echo my colleagues in that Council Member Freese would have made a fine Mayor too and I also see that in her future if I can have anything to do with it."
Kramer and Taylor both voted against Freese as Mayor this year, in what's her last year in this term on council.
See the full story at The Capistrano Dispatch
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