New Council Member Asking Hard Questions

By Hector Tobar
Los Angeles Times

Christina Cortez, has been asking tough questions about Montebello's finances and doesn't like the answers. Meanwhile, some of those around her don't much like the questions.

Christina Cortez was once Miss Montebello. But the city won't be naming her Most Popular anytime soon.

Now 38, a mother of two and a telephone company sales manager, Cortez is making a lot of enemies in her hometown. She's on the Montebello City Council now, and often on the losing end of 4-1 votes as the city spirals down a financial rabbit hole.

She freely admits to making a pest of herself on the council dais, mostly by demanding answers to questions that don't have easy answers. She further annoys by adding up the numbers on the city's budgetary spreadsheets — and pointing out when the math is all wrong.

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We need more inquisitive council members representing taxpayers and shaking the public tree.