Third in a series. 

Re: “Baffled by Culver City ‘Apathy’” 

The subject of City Councilman Andy Weissman was the frustration that the perceived political apathy of his hometown causes the leaders of Culver City.

“In a community where you have a 40,000 residential nighttime population, a quarter-of-million people daytime population and you have five individuals who have the ability to make decisions that affect your day-to-day living, you would think people would be more involved,” Mr. Weissman said.

“I don’t know why they are not. We would like, as elected to think the reason is they are satisfied with the status quo. They are satisfied with the way in which the Council is watching out for the community.”

But Mr. Weissman and his four colleagues cannot be sure.

They cannot even know. Only guess.

Apathetic residents, by definition, remain out of view.

“If they are not satisfied, as I said before, it may be complete apathy,” Mr. Weissman said. “They may be saying, ‘I don’t care enough to care.’”

The veteran Council argues that “apathy has dramatically affected small communities.

“Take a look at Culver City, which, for decades had a very large volunteer community service group. You had people who belonged to seven or eight community service organizations, Rotary, Exchange, Lions, Optimists.

“A lot of community activists who were involved in community building through community service, have gone away,” said Mr. Weissman. “They have not been replaced.”

(To be continued)