The Ontario City Council is no Ontario-Montclair School Board in the excitement department, but Tuesday’s council meeting showed that the traditional honeymoon period after an election lasted minutes, not months.

The swearing-in of one new member, Debra Dorst-Porada, seems to have emboldened councilmen Jim Bowman and Alan Wapner, who have been in the minority the past few months. They made moves that night to assert themselves and turn the tables on Mayor Paul Leon and Councilwoman Sheila Mautz, who suddenly seem to be standing on shaky ground.

Toward meeting’s end, Dorst-Porada declared cheerfully, “I think we’re going to have a really great four years.”

Leon and Mautz were probably thinking of that Lone Ranger joke that ends: “What do you mean ‘we,’ kemosabe?”