u/Biasedsm

Our housing stock is aging and deferred maintenance is both a safety and quality of life issue for residents.

Santa Monica’s political establishment seems focused on making sure property owners cannot rebuild. Single family homeowners fight every single new housing development or new state law like it’s a life or death battle.

What Santa Monica never discusses are the day to day struggles of residents in crappy buildings. Property owners never get a chance to justify their lack of investment so government remedies are not even considered.

Negrete has been on the council for nearly 6 years, did a stint as mayor and is running a campaign for the second time. She has excellent name recognition, too.

Should Lana Negrete drop out of the council race?

That’s right – Zombie’s.

Ideas voters overwhelming rejected in ’22 and ’24 are trying to crawl back to life. The old Slate of Change is trying to make a comeback.  Boomer “political” clubs are aligning and they plan to lead the attack.

Defeated and disgraced establishment politicians are dying to get re-elected. The Slate of Change is on the march even though we buried them in '22 and '24. SMRR and the neighborhood groups have popped out of their graves in the hopes of eating our future. NIMBY's are still wailing about losing a past that never existed

Our Zombies scream “supply and demand doesn’t work in Santa Monica”, “Santa Monica is a dangerous crime hellhole”, “stop new home development” and “get rid of those bike lanes”. They scare themselves into a frenzy of illogic.

Santa Monica's Zombies have no plans. They have no solutions to our local affordability crisis nor do they have data to back up their plaintive wails.

Election 2026 is, in part, about making the undead dead again.