Category Archives: Candidates

At our first of two endorsement meetings of 2020, the Club voted on endorsements for City Council, College Board of Trustees, LA Superior Court Office #72, and three ballot measures. Miss the meeting? Watch it here: 114 ballots were cast, which meant that 63 votes were needed to receive endorsement.The full results are listed below. Bolded… Read More →

The Executive Board of the Santa Monica Democratic Club has met to deliberate over our recommendations for endorsement. As you know, this has been our most transparent endorsement process ever. Each candidate filled out a lengthy questionnaire and endured a 20-minute interview with our board. Using that process as the basis of our consideration, the Executive Board has made… Read More →

On Sunday, August 23, as part of the Club’s biannual endorsement process, the SMDC Executive Board met with all 20 candidates who are seeking our endorsement for local office. We spent 20 minutes on Zoom with each candidate asking follow-up questions based on their submitted, written questionnaire.  All of those interviews are now uploaded to… Read More →

This year, we are committed to our most open and transparent endorsement process ever. We sent questionnaires to every Democratic candidate who will appear on the ballot. Below are the 20 candidate questionnaire responses we received, completely unedited except to remove contact info for some candidates. These are now the only candidates we will be considering for… Read More →