CITYWIDE — Jonathan Mann is the perennial City Council candidate.
The 61-year-old flight attendant and substitute teacher is running for the eighth consecutive time, hoping once again that voters will embrace his ideas to implement free Internet throughout Santa Monica and a City Hall blog to allow the public to give its two cents and keep a check and balance on local government.
Not only is Mann running in his eighth straight council election, he is once again running without money or endorsements, making a winning campaign all the more difficult.
“The way you get elected in this city, and many other cities, is you have to have the endorsement of special interest,” he said. “The machine politics is SMRR (Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights) and the Santa Monica Police Department.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 2, 2006. Read the original PDF.