Councilmember Sepi Shyne has removed another one of her direct appointees. On tuesday morning Zekiah Wright received their notice via email that they are being removed from the Rent Stabilization Commission effective immediately.
Wright, who was rumored to be a leading contender in this year’s WeHo City Council race has told WEHOonline that they will no longer be a candidate. An independent poll of West Hollywood voters to be released later this week showed Wright with 13.1% of the overall vote.
In the 2022 campaign for West Hollywood City Council Zekiah Wright finished fourth, just 13 votes shy of John Heilman in their first run for a WeHo Council seat.
The removal of Wright is the second high-profile commissioner to be removed in the last month. Shyne dismissed NiK Kacy from the LGBTQ+ Commission in mid-May on the first day of Equality Fashion Week.
Just two weeks ago, NiK Kacy asked the LGBTQ+ Commission to give protections to appointed officials. WEHOonline reported on it here.
Every decision Sepi makes seems to be worse than the last. It’s clear she is not acting in the best interest of the community, but rather her own personal agenda.
I don’t trust people with bow ties unless they’re serving me a drink.
It will be interesting if Shyne appoints Danny Hang as Zekiah’s replacement on the Commission.
Danny is already Sepi’s appointee on the business licensing commission.
Yes, he voted at a recent revocation hearing to protect Med Men even though they failed to pay their sales tax
The one thing everyone seems to agree on in the city is how horrible Sepi is. Try to trust me, Lindsey Horvath did lots more long term damage to the city than Sepi ever could.
While I am glad to see Wright’s reliance on identity politics off the ballot, they did not deserve the disrespect occasioned by Sepi Shyne’s ongoing vindictive and retaliatory behavior. I suspect that there’s a lot of political maneuvering, game playing, and backstabbing happening in the background and I have little doubt that the arrows point to Stonewall Democratic Club and Lindsey Horvath as the engineers. Our once-fair hamlet has been hijacked by toxicity that is often brewed by outsiders.
Can’t somebody just turn on the fire sprinklers at council chambers and watch Sepi Shyne melt?
There are no limits to Sepis disgraceful conduct, but certainly not upset in anyway to see this candidate drop out.
Luckily Sepi Shyne will be nothing more than a really bad footnote in the history of our city in about 6 months time.
In a few years, after we have recovered from the harm of her irresponsible policies, Shyne’s tenure with all bizarre antics will offer a moment of comic relief when we write the history of West Hollywood. If the damage was not so real her time on Council would be a joke.
Not soon enough!! There needs to be a massive call for her IMMEDIATE resignation!
Wow! This is political hardball at its’ most heartless and cynical manifestation. While I don’t have a lot of political intersectionality with Wright, they have been a loyal team player for the Council majority. It was apparent that the Mayor wanted to clear the field for his favored running mate, and Wright was strong-armed to get out of the way, even though their showing in the last election should have made them a front-runner by any calculation. Given Wright’s showing in the last election, it seemed like they earned the right to run in this race. But Wright must of… Read more »
“It was apparent that the Mayor wanted to clear the field for his favored running mate.” >>> Who is this running mate you speak of?
A poll? How does one poll a town so small accurately?
lol, easier in a small town then a big one…
I was wondering the same thing! WHO conducted the survey ? And how many people were polled?
I bet it was Larry Block!
WeHo has dodged another radical.
Indeed!
Intersectional status alone gets you half-way there, so if you don’t have what it takes to close the rest of the deal …… WeHo did get a win here!
I’m glad Sepi will be gone soon, and I hope that John Erickson will be gone soon too! Her vindictiveness and his snarkiness and arrogance, make them both unworthy of being on the City Council!
Glad she is “moving on” as well, but a good decision on this one to remove Zekiah.
Your outburst at the last city council meeting was uncalled for. Annie Jump Vicente would be proud of you!
Mikie was provoked.
Have a word with your bestie John, and have him refrain from antagonizing speakers, once they walk away. Mikie spoke well and calmly, all John needed to do after the comment was to keep his yapper shut.
Pathetic attack on an upstanding and passionate citizen who was taunted into responding to the uncivilized and disrespectful snark of a histrionic buffoon.
Excuses for petulant childish behavior are still excuses. No one was taunted.
Erickson is a disrespectful, uncouth, histrionic buffoon. Pull your head out of his entrails.