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Corona by the numbers & local updates Compiled by Kamala Kirk Cases and deaths by neighborhood as of July 11: Culver City: 2,268 (deaths 110); Del Rey: 33 (deaths one); El Segundo: 757 (deaths six); Marina del Rey: 416 (deaths four); Mar Vista: 2,120 (deaths 37); Palms: 2,668 (deaths 61); Playa del Rey: 117 (deaths one); Playa Vista: 630 (deaths nine); Santa Monica: 4,955 (deaths 182); Venice: 1,796 (deaths 13); Westchester: 2,614 (deaths 49) Total Westside cases: 18,374 Total Westside deaths: 474
Total confirmed cases in LA County: 1,257,628 Total deaths in LA County: 24,542 Total new cases as of July 11: 1,113 Total new deaths: Four Hospitalizations: 373 Positivity rate (seven-day daily average): 1.63% Total number of people tested: 7,112,495 (Source: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health)
Eye on the prize, who can beat Mike Bonin? Editor: There is an old saying in politics, and that is, “You can’t beat somebody with nobody.” And with current incumbent LA Councilman Mike Bonin (CD-11), you have the quintessential political insider and darling of the downtown status quo. A two-term incumbent who has fallen upon hard political times with his radical ideas that right is somehow wrong and wrong has now become right as he has decimated our neighborhoods with a growing homeless epidemic in the thousands and rising crime the result of these wrong-headed policies as our public spaces have been taken hostage by criminals and transients as 50% of all crime here in Venice is now homeless-related! There isn’t a place in LA with more homeless than Venice with the exception of Skid Row downtown and Mike Bonin seems perfectly content with that reality. But despite the fact Bonin is a wounded incumbent of sorts with a tough race ahead of him as well as a second recall attempt complicating his future, Bonin remains a smart and savvy political operative that is Harvard educated and will do all that is necessary to retain this seat he inherited from the late Bill Rosendahl nearly a decade ago. Bonin’s first two races were sleepy “no-contest” drubbings (2013, 17) as he was challenged by underfunded and
unknown aspirants. It was the late Rosendahl who cleared the field and anointed this downtown inside bureaucrat. And while I clearly don’t like Mike, the residents of District 11 demand a viable and compelling alternative, someone who can actually defeat Bonin. For the angst and opposition to Bonin is large and deep. He is an arrogant Machiavellian who lacks the ability to listen or the temperament to govern. In too long, out of touch and time to go! So after the disastrous road diets and this explosion of homelessness now spreading to the rest of the district, the past support Bonin enjoyed in places like Brentwood and the Palisades seems to be crumbling and bursting at the political seams. So the need for “new leadership” and calls for change are obvious, but who has the community support, resume and record of results that can defeat a partisan, professional politician the likes of Mr. Bonin? Enter Venice resident and attorney Traci Park. I took the time to visit her web address (tracipark.com) and while most political websites are flowery presentations long on rhetoric and short on specifics, this site really said nothing at all. And while I don’t know Park, she is a political novice with no real community advocacy or service and is she really the ticket to take out Bonin? The answer is no. For the fact Bonin isn’t mentioned once
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