[img]2333|right|Christopher Patrick King||no_popup[/img]One way that freshman candidate Christopher Patrick King hopes to overcome two of his three rivals for a City Council seat is by outworking them.
From opening day of his first campaign three months ago, Mr. King not only has accented a round-the-clock toil schedule, he has introduced innovative tactics that Culver City voters are seeing for the first time.
On a gray afternoon clotted with rain clouds, Mr. King turned on the sunshine. Speaking optimistically but not boastfully 36 days out, he believes that he is gaining, especially on his incumbent opponents. He may be on the ledge of a breakthrough.
“The statistic in Culver City,” said Mr. King yesterday at a meet ‘n greet, “is that you should knock on the door of every likely voter at least once. It is my goal to hit every door at least twice by Election Day, April 8.”
Since returning 10 days ago from a marathon in Japan, the ambitious, laser-focused mortgage broker/homeless advocate has been visiting residents for two to three hours every day.
“This week,” said Mr. King at a campaign event hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Desmond Burns in the Tellefson Park neighborhood, “because there still are people I have not reached in person, I am going to visit all of the remaining absentee ballot voters I have not yet seen.
“I will go back through the log sheets, and in the remaining days of the campaign, we also have high school volunteers who are helping us now.
“This program is called ‘Commitment to the Community.’ We have a great program where it’s one-third, one-third and one-third.
“There is a one-third education about local politics we do with them in the office, how to be involved, how to advocate with your local leaders. One-third of it is working in the office, putting together precinct sheets, compiling data. The remaining one-third is out in the field, either helping with an event or walking door-to-door.”
