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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2014
Volume 13 Issue 229
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Residocracy to endorse through e-vote BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
CITYWIDE Infiltrators, start your engines. The city’s newest political party will endorse City Council candidates through an
online vote by its members, according to the group’s founder Armen Melkonians. Residocracy was formed earlier this year to oppose large development projects in the city. Through a referendum, it successfully challenged council’s controversial decision
to approve the Hines development project. As Residocracy is still in its infant stages, some details of the e-vote still need to be worked out, Melkonians said. They plan to send questionnaires to every candidate, the answers to which will be posted online
before the vote. Residocracy’s 12-member board may provide recommendations to the membership before the vote, with a list of reasons SEE E-VOTE PAGE 7
SMRR leaders may support third council candidate BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
CITYWIDE The Steering Committee of the
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SHARK WEEK AT THE AQUARIUM
Want to see live sharks during Shark Week? Visit Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium to check out three species of sharks on exhibit and the marine center's shark nursery. Special activities to honor the Elasmobranchii (learn what that is and how to pronounce it) are planned all week long. Watch the sharks eat on Tuesday and Friday afternoons or hear a special presentation about these misunderstood animals while they enjoy their Sunday dinner at 3:30 p.m. The Aquarium, at 1600 Ocean Front Walk, is open from 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and weekends from 12:30 to 6 p.m. Admission is free for kids 12 and under with a paying adult; for all others, admission is $5 per person.
city’s largest political party announced its support of two City Council candidates over the weekend but support of a third may be coming. Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights (SMRR) members failed to reach consensus and endorse any council candidates at its convention earlier this month so the question was posed to the party’s 11-member board. Four of those members recused themselves because of their involvement with this year’s campaign but the remaining seven agreed to support Councilmember Kevin McKeown and Planning Commission Chair Jennifer Kennedy. Roger Thornton, a Steering Committee member who, according to campaign disclosure statements, is serving as the treasurer of both Kennedy’s and Planning Commissioner Sue Himmelrich’s campaigns, did not recuse himself. Co-Chair Patricia Hoffman is open to the idea of supporting a third candidate. It’s something SMRR might do down the line if the leadership believes it to be politically advantageous, she said. “There is a possibility that we could add one more person and when you do it by SEE THIRD PAGE 7
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