The City of West Hollywood announces an extension of the City Council Candidacy Nomination Period to Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 5 p.m.
It was previously announced that the Candidacy Nomination Period would end on Friday, August 9, 2024; pursuant to the State Elections Code, a five-day extension may take place if an eligible incumbent does not file Nomination Papers by the deadline.
City of West Hollywood residents who are interested in running for City Council should contact the City Clerk’s office to schedule an appointment to receive nomination papers and to review the requirements and deadlines for becoming an official candidate.
The City Council candidate nomination process requires a potential candidate to gather between 20 and 30 signatures by voters registered in West Hollywood. Potential candidates must be at least 18 years old, residents of West Hollywood, and registered voters within the City.
Two City Council seats will be decided in the upcoming General Municipal Election, which will be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. City of West Hollywood Councilmembers each serve for a term of four years and are elected at large. Each year, City Councilmembers select one of their members to serve as Mayor for a year, with the term beginning after the City Council reorganization, which occurs once every year.
The City of West Hollywood’s elections page, www.weho.org/elections, provides detailed election information and links to the California Secretary of State’s Voter Registration page, the Los Angeles County Registrar/Recorder’s website, and specific links for polling places and sample ballots.
For more information, to schedule an appointment to receive nomination papers, and to review the requirements and deadlines for becoming an official candidate, please contact the City of West Hollywood’s City Clerk’s Office at (323) 848-6409 or send an e-mail message to Alyssa Poblador at apoblador@weho.org.
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What do you want to bet this was John Erickson’s idea?
No, this is State law.
Which eligible incumbent did not file their nomination papers before the deadline …. and why not?
Sepi Shyne. Apparently she had a brief encounter with reality and decided that any attempt at re-election would be embarrassing and pointless.
But since she’s not running why the extension?
Or is the fact that she is “eligible” all it t takes?
Sounds like the kind of logic and inefficiency we should expect from the government.
This is a state law that extends the filing period for all municipalities if an incumbent does not pull nomination papers. Ther is nohting nefarious about it. Same thing happened when John DAmico did not run for re-election. Any incumbent can say they are not running and change their mind at the last minute. This gives an extra week to the public to opt in for an open seat.
YES 👏🏽 ❗ EXTENSION OF NOMINATION PERIOD – “If an incumbent for any office fails to file nomination documents by August 9, 2024 5:00 p.m., the nomination period is extended for five (5) days. During this period, any qualified person, other than the incumbent, may file nomination documents for the office.”
If an eligible incumbent can’t file paperwork by the deadline it should be too bad and goodbye. Looking at this city and all the deadlines and extensions in every sector of this city, it is a disgusting waste of money, citizens time, business owners time and god I say it, developers time. Delays and extensions are vacant store fronts and derelict properties ready to go up in smoke. And this is exactly what extending the nomination deadline foreshadows: lazy ass politicians that don’t pay attention. What a damn joke for us.
I will be writing in my vote for Roger our UPS driver. He is who we need on the city council. I haven’t met one person who doesn’t like Roger.
I have two qualifications for any candidate I would consider voting for:
I only want to support candidates who support the residents and are not beholden to outside power brokers.