1. “19 Culver City Leaders Line up Behind Ridley-Thomas for Supervisor”:

“On Nov. 4, Culver City voters have the opportunity to play a significant role in electing our new representative to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Culver City’s leaders, including all five members of the City Council, strongly support state Sen. Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Culver City).

Sen. Ridley-Thomas has the experience that we need to meet and guide the challenges facing our community. For more than 30 years, he has served as a community activist, civic leader and an elected member of the Los Angeles City Council, state Assembly, and state Senate. As an 11-year City Councilman, Sen. Ridley-Thomas understands the challenges that local communities face.

He has worked diligently on increasing local control over important civic issues and empowering communities and their leaders to make important decisions. He has represented Culver City in the state Senate and has shown a keen understanding of our community’s issues. He knows how to work with us to do what’s best for our residents and business community.”

Read the entire Op-Ed at The Front Page Online.

2. Ari Noonan at The Front Page Online wonders if Bernard Parks is cut out to be a politician:

“In every public scenario where I have studied him in this campaign, Mr. Parks has reminded me of the way I felt the second time I met the parents of one ex-wife who left her footprints on my life. I think it was her heel. After the first meeting, her parents barred me from their house. Being resourceful, if not clever, we met elsewhere.

Even though every signal screams otherwise, Mr. Parks insists that he is at ease inside of his skin running for a high-profile office in this city…”

Read the entire article.

3. The Los Angeles Police Protective League is supporting Mark Ridley-Thomas for L.A. County Supervisor.

UPCOMING EVENTS

4. Speaker Karen Bass will help the West L.A. Democratic Club phone-bank on behalf of Senator Ridley-Thomas tonight. Come out and meet the Speaker and Senator Ridley-Thomas from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Westside Democratic HQ, 900 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica.

5. Poll monitor training session tonight at the Carson Office, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., at 730 E. Carson Ave., Carson, CA 90745

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