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# Pushing for ‘Change’
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/pushing-for-change/
- Published: 2004-08-11T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:48:44.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Pico, #archive-import

The “Team for Change” slate hopes to unseat City Hall’s ruling party this November. Here’s a look at the three candidates: BILL BAUER Bauer, 62, is a 33-year Santa Monica renter and former newspaper columnist. Bauer’s community activism goes back to the mid-1970s, when he was involved in the “Save the Piers” movement. Bauer now volunteers for the Santa Monica Police Department and the Santa Monica Fire Department. Bauer, who works in advertising and public relations, also volunteers as disaster relief specialist for the Santa Monica chapter of the American Red Cross. He volunteered in disaster relief at a Red Cross service center in New York City after 9-11\. This is his first run for public office.

DAVID COLE Cole, 49, is an executive director of Residential Care Facilities for Seniors in Woodland Hills. He attended local public and private schools, attended college in Europe and worked in the audio/video production field. After volunteering to help the less fortunate in Santa Monica, he changed careers and focused his work on children, thementallyillandseniors.Colehasserved as co-chair of Mid-Cities Neighbors and has sat on various City boards and commissions. He ran for City Council in 2000.

KATHRYN MOREA Morea, 40, has lived in Santa Monica since 1996\. She became involved in neighborhood issues as a block club activist, has been involved in a number of issues affecting her west Pico neighborhood and created a local neighborhood watch group. Morea also initiated the Samohi parking and transportation task force under the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. Its purpose is to bring students, school officials and residents together to find parking and transportation solutions around Samohi. This is Morea’s first attempt at public office.

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*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 11, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/081104.pdf?ref=smdp.com)