It seems quite obvious by its latest lock-step, liberal endorsements that any democratic values the Culver City Democratic Club once held have been tossed out the window, trashed.
It is now the exclusive domain for the most partisan of liberals in town. The word is out that long-time party moderates need not join or seek its approval.
Isolation on the Dais
During her first term in office, Councilperson Meghan Sahli-Wells, being the Council’s lone liberal, found much of her own left-leaning agenda being stopped in its tracks due to the lack of a procedural second. Many of her liberal proposals died on the dais without even being discussed by the Council.
Long, Tall Sahli
As the only incumbent running, Ms. Sahli-Wells looks quite secure in her re-election. So much so that her supporters now believe she has long enough coattails to carry a slate of other like-minded candidates onto the Council.
It Could Happen
If the general electorate remains apathetic and does not come out to vote–as it did in the last School Board election– it would give this small liberal clique another opportunity to get out enough of their local partisans to vote and sway the election — thereby imposing for the first time in Culver City’s almost 100-year history, a liberal majority on our Council. This would be placing candidates into office, not only for the number of votes they received, but due largely to the greater number of votes not cast in the election.
Mr. Laase may be contacted at GMLaase@aol.com
