Candidate for
Council Member; City of Claremont

Corey was born in Chicago. Not long thereafter, his family moved to Claremont where he has resided for the past thirty-nine years. He is a parishioner of Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church. He attended the United Church of Christ Pre-School, Foothill Country Day School, and Webb School of California. He went on to Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, receiving a degree in Business Administration in 1992.

In 1990, he ran his first race for Claremont City Council at age nineteen. While he did not win, he garnered a strong 2,382 votes. He ran unsuccessfully again in 1992 and 1994 before finally receiving the nod of the voters in the election of March 2005. At his installation on March 16, 2005, Councilman Calaycay remarked that his 15-year journey to City Council brought new personal meaning for him to the old adage, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again."

Corey had been an active leader in the community in the years prior to his election. He served on the County of Los Angeles Local Suppression of Drug Abuse in Schools Advisory Committee and is Past-Chair of the City of Claremont Library Task Force. He is Past-President of the Friends of the Claremont Public Library, Past-Treasurer and Past-President of the Claremont Educational Foundation, and a founding member and Past-President of Active Claremont.

Corey has over ten years of experience working for the California State Legislature and has had the opportunity to serve constituents in more than thirty communities in the region around Claremont including parts of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange counties. He has worked for former Assemblyman Bob Margett (59th District), former Assemblyman Bob Pacheco (60th District), former Assemblyman Todd Spitzer (71st District), and former State Senator Bob Margett (29th District).

Corey served a one-year term as Mayor of Claremont from March 2009 - March 2010. He serves on Local Board 194 of the Selective Service System, the County of Los Angeles Public Library Commission, the Los Angeles County City Selection Committee, the 210 Foothill Freeway Corridor Design Joint Powers Authority, and the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District. He is also the City's representative to the Foothill Transit Governing Board and serves as alternate to Pomona Councilmember Paula Lantz on the Foothill Transit Executive Board. He is the lead delegate to the general membership meetings of the Los Angeles Division of the League of California Cities. Mayor Schroeder has also appointed him as his voting alternate on the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County - District #21 Board.