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PART VI -- Why Do Incumbents Keep Getting Re-Elected?

10/20/2018 8:21 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

In Santa Monica, it is rare for a City Council incumbent to lose a bid for re-election. Some attribute that to the money and backing they attract, others to voter satisfaction. Here's what the Council candidates think.

Since 1994 only two incumbents have lost their bids for reelection. Why do you think that is?

Prop 10, which would expand rent control, is 'in deep trouble,' poll shows

10/19/2018 8:18 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

An initiative that would expand rent control in California faces a steep deficit as election day nears, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.

The survey found that 41% of likely voters favor Proposition 10 with 38% opposed and 21% undecided.

PART V -- Council Candidates Choose Sides in Voting Rights Lawsuit

10/19/2018 7:53 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

A Superior Court judge is expected to rule this month on a voting rights lawsuit against the City. Today City Council candidates weigh in.

City Hall is fighting a voting rights lawsuit that seeks to replace at-large elections with district elections. Do you support or oppose districts? Why?

Rent Control Board Candidate Profile: Lori Brown

10/18/2018 8:15 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Name: Lori Brown

Age: 58

Occupation: Business owner; Vice Chair of Santa Monica Recreation & Parks; Mother of a public school students.

Neighborhood of residence: Sunset Park; Pico Neighborhood and previously Ocean Park.

Own/Rent: Own the home where my family has lived since 2001; owner of a three-unit rental property since 2013; and former renter of 24 years in rent-controlled units.

Kids: Santiago, a SAMOHI graduate now attending SMC who I adopted from Colombia when he was 12. I am also the legal guardian of a teenage girl who, like most teens, hates when the adults talk about her.

VOTING IS (NOT-) INCUMBENT by Charles Andrews

10/17/2018 10:44 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

KNOW WHAT I’M GOING TO DO?

After the election?

I’m going to start writing about all the good things that go on in our fair city, all the good things our City staff does, all the good that comes from our elected officials. There’s plenty of it. And won’t that be uplifting? And a lot nicer for me?

However —

I can’t in good conscience do that until those people stop doing way more harm than good. I know they don’t see themselves that way, but many of us do, and that’s something they really should pay attention to. But they don’t.

For Rent Control Board you have three challengers to the all-lawyer board. One is a lawyer, also coming straight from SMRR. Of the other two, only one is a property owner and as I said last election, it’s not right to not have them represented, with at least one member, since all the RCB business concerns also property owners. It makes sense to get them in the mix for the best outcome for our many renters. I will bullet vote for only that one.

Rent Control Board Profile Candidate: Naomi Sultan

10/17/2018 10:43 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Read her profile and responses at: http://www.smdp.com/rent-control-board-profile-candidate-naomi-sultan/170082

Nicole Phillis: Rent Control Board Candidate

10/17/2018 10:29 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Prop 10, the housing crisis and more with incumbent candidate.

In the Santa Monica Mirror’s first live-video interview with Santa Monica Rent Control Board candidates, we sit down with Nicole Phillis, who currently sits on the board and is running for reelection as an incumbent in November.

See More: https://smmirror.com/2018/10/nicole-phillis-rent-control-board-candidate/

No on 10

10/16/2018 9:34 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

by Jay Johnson

Editor:

As a past Rent Board Commissioner, Planning Commissioner and past president of the Santa Monica Democratic Club I say, Prop 10 is a disaster for tenants and property owners in Santa Monica: it is poorly written, bad for homeowners and condo owners and taxpayers, and will cost millions to enforce statewide according to State Legislative Analyst Office.

Gavin Newsom, our next governor does not support prop 10. John Chang, Villaragoso, the State Legislature, the NAACP and the building trades unions are all opposed.

Ballot measure would lock lower taxes for older homeowners

10/16/2018 9:32 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Proposition 5 on the Nov. 6 ballot would sharply expand the tax benefit for homeowners over 55 years old, the severely disabled and natural-disaster victims.

Rent Control Board Candidate Profile: Nicole S. Phillis

10/16/2018 9:27 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Read her profile and responses at: http://www.smdp.com/rent-control-board-candidate-profile-nicole-s-phillis/170030