[img]1379|left|Mehaul O’Leary||no_popup[/img]Good news this afternoon for Andy Weissman and Mehaul O’Leary, the two incumbents in Tuesday’s City Council election, according to Mayor O’Leary.
While most of Culver City seems baffled by how the six-way fight for four seats will end, Hizzoner breathes bloomin’optimism today.
“I am confident that Andy and I will be leading the table,” Mr. O’Leary predicted. “And I am going to take that confidence into Tuesday.
“I am hearing things that are very confident on the campaign door-to-door trail.”
A whopping 2,000 residents already have cast their absentee ballots, and Mr. O’Leary has met some of them face-to-face.
Beaming broadly, he said that absentee voters have assured him that they marked an “x” by his name. “They have told me, ‘Good job. I don’t need your flyer. Just keep it going.’
“I am only hearing positive things,” Mr. O’Leary said, adding cautiously, “and I hope it is the truth.”
The Mayor is laying elaborate plans for Election Day. Although his strategy is not yet finalized, he intends to rent a shuttle to ferry needy voters to their polling places.
He says voters should call 310.837.1917 on Tuesday morning to learn the details.
At the other end of the day, his victory party will be at the Culver Hotel. That may only be the start.
“If the results turn out my way, the party may be mobilized and move along to a certain Irish bar,” said Mr. O’Leary, alluding to his own pub, Joxer Daly’s, near the Sepulveda-Washington Boulevard intersection.
Last Tuesday, Mr. O’Leary sent out a 285-word email, a plea for funds that some recipients interpreted as a distress signal.
It said in part:
“We are also finishing out our fundraising effort, to ensure the campaign has no debt after Election Day. Any contribution you can make using the button to the right would be very appreciated. $5, $10, $25 – everything will go a long way to making sure the campaign breaks even!”
On the contrary, Mr. O’Leary said, everything fiscal is fine.
“I am confident that I not only will be able to get my $5,000 loan to the campaign back, but that we will be able to break even,” he said.
“I don’t know how much we have raised. I have just been looking at invoices coming in, what we owe and what we need to be able to pay as the campaign went along. I have not looked at the totals. They are relatively irrelevant to me.”
