After a whirlwind of an election season the campaign to elect Daniel Lee to the City Council will wrap up Tuesday with an election night party at the home of Culver City residents Rebecca and Rick Tuttle, 11659 McDonald St.
Meanwhile, among other candidates pursuing three available seats on the City Council:
- Scott Wyant’s party will be Downtown, at Rush Street.
- Goran Eriksson will be at The Culver Hotel.
- Marcus Tiggs will be at the home of Mike Cohen, 4378 Jasmine Ave.
- Thomas Small will be hosting at the family home, 8894 Carson St., the tallest structure on Carson Street in the Hayden Tract.
Ms. Rona-Tuttle, a career community activist, is a former member of the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee. She serves on the board of the local branch of Americans for Democratic Action. Mr. Tuttle is a lifelong civil rights activist and retired Los Angeles city controller.
Mr. Lee’s campaign has been built on a three-issue platform: environment, fairness and accountability.
Environment: As a city that sits on the edge of the Inglewood Oil Field, “we have a profound impact on how rules crafted to protect us from contamination due to fracking and other environmental concerns will affect the state and the country,” he says.
Accountability: “Local government’s chief responsibility is to be accountable to the people who have elected them,” says Mr. Lee.
“To do this more effectively, we must think beyond City Hall. We must and go into the various communities of the city on a regular basis to develop a true understanding of the issues affecting our city’s residents on a day to day basis.”
Fairness: “We must take pro-active steps to insure that our city develops in a way that reflects the demographic and economic levels of our diverse population,” says Mr. Lee. “Our minimum wage should keep up with that of other surrounding Greater Los Angeles communities. We should work to attract top talent to our businesses, our homeowners and tenants must be protected so that they are not forced to leave our communities.”
A late entry to the City Council race, Mr. Lee has gained local, regional and even national endorsements as well as community support.
Mr. Lee said he is “looking forward to a celebratory and hopefully transformative night for all of Culver City.”
