Inside Scoop WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
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Meet the City Council candidates Santa Monicans have critical decisions to make come November when they will be asked to cast votes for candidates running for the City Council, SMMUSD school board, the Santa Monica College Board of Trustees and the Rent Control Board. To help make those decisions easier, the Daily Press created a questionnaire that asks candidates to give their opinions on key issues affecting the city by the sea. Here they are, published in the order in which candidates will appear on the Nov. 2 ballot.
DANIEL CODY
JERRY RUBIN
TED WINTERER
• NAME: DANIEL CODY • AGE: 41 • OCCUPATION: SOFTWARE ALLIANCE PROFESSIONAL • MARITAL STATUS/CHILDREN: MARRIED, NO CHILDREN • YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED THERE?: NORTH OF WILSHIRE, 12 YEARS • YOUR MODE OF TRANSPORTATION/MODEL, MAKE AND YEAR OF YOUR RIDE?: I WORK FROM HOME. WHEN I DO DRIVE IT IS MOSTLY TO THE AIRPORT IN A ‘98 VOLVO S70 AND AROUND TOWN ON A 50CC VESPA OR MY BICYCLE (WHEN NOT WALKING, WHICH IS THE MAJORITY OF TIME). • OWN OR RENT?: RENTED WHEN WE FIRST MOVED HERE, NOW OWN.
• NAME: JERRY RUBIN • AGE: 66 • OCCUPATION: PEACE ACTIVIST • MARITAL STATUS/CHILDREN: MARRIED TO BEAUTIFUL MARISSA RUBIN FOR 27 YEARS. • YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED THERE?: OCEAN PARK FOR 17 YEARS. SANTA MONICA RESIDENT FOR 20 YEARS. • YOUR MODE OF TRANSPORTATION/MODEL, MAKE AND YEAR OF YOUR RIDE?: WALKING AND BIG BLUE BUS. • OWN OR RENT?: OWN
• NAME: TED WINTERER • AGE: 53 • OCCUPATION: WRITER • MARITAL STATUS/CHILDREN: MARRIED; 9-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER AND 4-YEAR-OLD SON • YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD?: HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED THERE? OCEAN PARK SINCE 2000; SANTA MONICA SINCE 1992. •YOUR MODE OF TRANSPORTATION/MODEL, MAKE AND YEAR OF YOUR RIDE?: MY WIFE AND I SHARE A 2009 KIA RONDO AND WALK, BIKE AND RIDE THE BIG BLUE BUS. ONE OF THESE DAYS I’D LIKE TO GET AN ELECTRIC CAR TO CHARGE WITH MY SOLAR PANELS. • OWN OR RENT?: OWNED SINCE 2000; RENTED PRIOR.
• DO YOU SUPPORT MEASURE Y, THE HALF-CENT SALES TAX INCREASE? IF SO, DO YOU THINK HALF OF THE MONEY GENERATED BY THE INCREASE SHOULD GO TO LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
No. I believe Measure Y is the wrong approach to cure the city’s structural deficit and tying it to education does not make it any more palatable. The school board should have placed the parcel tax on the November ballot and made the
• DO YOU SUPPORT MEASURE Y, THE HALF-CENT SALES TAX INCREASE? IF SO, DO YOU THINK HALF OF THE MONEY GENERATED BY THE INCREASE SHOULD GO TO LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
Yes. Absolutely yes. The money stays in Santa Monica. And, food and medicine is not included. I also support the advisory measure to give half the money to our schools. I imagine our police and fire departments could also use some of that estimated $13 million this very reasonable transaction and use tax would bring in.
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• DO YOU SUPPORT MEASURE Y, THE HALF-CENT SALES TAX INCREASE? IF SO, DO YOU THINK HALF OF THE MONEY GENERATED BY THE INCREASE SHOULD GO TO LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
Yes and yes. • WHAT ARE YOU READING?
“Green Metropolis” by David Owen, and “Traffic” by Tom SEE RUBIN PAGE 7
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