Dear Editor:
This election there is a clear choice. If you want to keep the MOVE project as is, then support Yasmin Imani-McMorrin, Bubba Fish and Nancy Barba. They are on the record opposing any changes to the MOVE project according to the Ellis Raskin, the attorney who provided his declaration under oath that McMorrin, Fish and Barba are on the record in opposing any changes. In paragraph 5 of his declaration he states that the Court should stay the City from changing MOVE due to the election coming up. Shades of Mitch McConnell!
Culver City is an independent City where traditionally its residents were served by the Council. We voted in a new majority in 2022 who decided to make reasonable changes to MOVE. MOVE was a pilot project started without an Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”). The Council voted to change the pilot project more consonant with the residents’ wishes, but now the same people who supported MOVE without an EIR are complaining in a lawsuit that the Council is making changes without this EIR. This is consummate hypocrisy. The judge who wrote the opinion for the City lambasted the legal reasoning of the faux organization Friend and Families for MOVE Culver City, but still they seek an ex parte stay causing the City more legal fees.
As a lifetime resident of Culver City, I have appreciated the local politicians who put Culver City and its residents first. We have made great progress on homelessness since the do-nothing progressive majority was voted out. They want to come back with their top-down ideological planning that puts rhetorical self-preening over common sense a la the MOVE project. I prefer actual progress to peacock progressivism, and our present council has been great in making actual progress. However, the control of the Council can go back to the Peacock progressives and more misguided MOVE type projects will haunt our city. If we wish to continue the progress we have made since 2022, we must elect politicians who will listen to the residents and put their local interests first. That is why I am voting for Albert Vera, Jr., Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin and Denice Renteria.
Sincerely,
Ron Ostrin
