The Lookout Letter to the editor Speak Out! Send Letters to editor@santamonicalookout SMRR Members Weigh In On Sunday’s Convention August 6, 2014 -- Santa Monicans for Renters Rights’ (SMRR) steering committee member will recuse herself. Slow growthers didn’t split the vote. Leadership should have allowed a third ballot. Dear Editor- We the Convention Delegates to the SMRR Convention on August 4, 2014 were robbed by the SMRR Co-Chair Patricia Hoffman not allowing us our third round of voting for City Council Candidates. The voting strategy on the third and final round could have been quite different from the previous two rounds. This deprived us Convention Delegates of our right to select the SMRR City Council candidates by changing the election rules at the very end. We assumed and planned for three voting rounds and then the SMRR Co-Chair abrogated our voting rights. After this, a majority of the Delegates present voted to preserve their third round voting rights but were again overruled by the SMRR Co-Chair. SMRR should be ashamed of themselves for robbing their very own Convention Delegates of their right to vote for the City Council Candidates using SMRR’s very own published agenda. Sincerely, Dr. Daniel Galamba https://youtube/watch?v=KXnoEV58IfY&list=UU1Rww1aeX_6D43SOmRo3izw Hoffman, is a co-chair of Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights (SMRR), has served as president of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District and currently chairs the Board of Community Corporation, the city’s largest affordable housing provider.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:20:34 +0000