So it might seem irrelevant who we elect to our City Council this November. But it isn’t. You now have three Council members who have come down firmly on the side of more and more development “needed” in Santa Monica — Jesse Zwick, Caroline Torosis, Gleam Davis. And you have all their power brokers bowing to developers — SM “Forward,” SMRR, SM “Democratic” Club, and “The Community for Excellence in Public Schools” — all endorsing our worst nightmare, four pro pro rah rah mo’ mo’ taller bigger development candidates: Dan Hall, Natalya Zernitskaya, Barry Snell, Ellis Raskin. If even one or two of them win Council seats, we’re screwed. And right now, other than our incumbents —
Phil Brock, Oscar de la Torre and Christine Parra — we have no candidates running against them. No PAC money, no organization. WTHeck. Screwed.

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