19 Culver City Leaders Line up Behind Ridley-Thomas for Supervisor
By Letters to the Editor @ 8:00 AM October 28, 2008From Tom Camarella
On Nov. 4, Culver City voters have the opportunity to play a significant role in electing our new representative to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Culver City’s leaders, including all five members of the City Council, strongly support state Sen. Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Culver City).
Sen. Ridley-Thomas has the experience that we need to meet and guide the challenges facing our community. For more than 30 years, he has served as a community activist, civic leader and an elected member of the Los Angeles City Council, state Assembly, and state Senate. As an 11-year City Councilman, Sen. Ridley-Thomas understands the challenges that local communities face.
He has worked diligently on increasing local control over important civic issues and empowering communities and their leaders to make important decisions. He has represented Culver City in the state Senate and has shown a keen understanding of our community’s issues. He knows how to work with us to do what’s best for our residents and business community.
Sen. Ridley-Thomas also has a long history of leading on those issues that directly impact the quality of life of our community. He has worked energetically to make oil drilling by PXP safer, secured $100 million in federal funding for hospitals in our neighborhoods, wrote the bill to create school-based health clinics like the Culver City Youth Health Center, and worked to find $1 billion to improve public transportation and infrastructure.
Sen. Ridley-Thomas has delivered for our community.
Now it is time for us to put him to work representing Culver City on the Board of Supervisors. The 19 of us represent business, labor, education, historical preservation, and neighborhood activism groups. We range in political ideology and party. However, we all strongly believe that with Sen. Ridley -Thomas on the Board of Supervisors, our community will continue to see the improvement and success that we have seen with his leadership in Sacramento.
Please join us in voting for Mark Ridley -Thomas for County Supervisor on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
(Signed)
City Council
Scott Malsin
Gary Silbiger
Christopher Armenta
Micheal O’Leary
Andy Weissman
Former Mayors
David Hauptman
Ed Wolkowitz
Culver City School Board
Jessica Beagles-Roos
Saundra Davis
Steven Gourley
Scott Zeidman
School Board Members (Ret.)
Julie Lugo Cerra
Barbara Honig
Marla Wolkowitz
Steven J. Rose, President/CEO
for the Culver City Chamber of Commerce
Tom Camarella, Past President
Culver City Democratic Club
Mary Ann Greene
Baldwin Hills Conservancy
Ronnie Jayne
Cultural Affairs Commission
Deborah Weinrauch
Community Activist
