(Too early! some said) I started writing in earnest about the upcoming election in November for City Council seats. Meaning, since there was no Earnest currently on the Council, I couldn’t recommend any incumbent and had to go scour the mean streets of Santa Monica for prospects.

Which raises a good question: do you have to have a Santa Monica address to run for Council? I would think so. But can we in good conscience deny representative rights and privileges to folks who have resided here for years, or decades, just because they don’t lay title to a street address? Are you your home? If you are homeless, are you nothing? And with their numbers, don’t the homeless deserve to have their own seat on the Council? At least one. They could be their own district. Imagine the campaigning. I might start going to Council meetings again.

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