Two-time City Council candidate Marcus Tiggs continues to search, two weeks after the election, in hopes of identifying what went wrong to cause a sixth-place finish.
The answer-cupboard is bare.
From his November launch at the Jasmine Street home of his friend Mike Cohen, Mr. Culver City, Mr. Tiggs chose the topic he knows best, finance, and he rode that horse without letup for five months.
As a bankruptcy attorney with decades of experience – a C.V. brought to a high gloss by a decorated military career – Mr. Tiggs regularly pounded away at the worrisome future state of City Hall revenues.
Finance was his central theme at nearly every public outing.
Are people turned off by money talk because it isn’t as sexy as social and traditional political topics?
Mr. Tiggs shrugged. “I don’t know,” he said.
But he suspects issues were not the decisive factor.
Personalities maybe?
Mr. Tiggs, a 25-year resident of Culver City who has been a city commissioner and, remember, two-time office seeker, is that unusual politician who is low-key. Is that a damaging quality?
But then so is newcomer Daniel Lee on the quiet side.
Mr. Tiggs is baffled that Mr. Lee finished fourth to his sixth and attracted 470 more votes.
He is intrigued that incumbent Meghan Sahli-Wells drew almost 1,400 more votes than second-place Thomas Small.
Last seen, Mr. Tiggs was shaking his head.
