Setting the Stage
Exasperation. Anger. Fear.
These emotions surfaced at each of the 100 neighborhood meetings Bobby Shriver held during his first City Council campaign. The subject: Homelessness in Santa Monica. Shriver made reducing the number of people living (and dying) on Santa Monica’s streets the central goal of his candidacy.
He was elected by a higher percentage of voters than any council candidate in the city’s recorded history. Voters were not responding to his sterling personality or even the Kennedy DNA. They were giving him a mandate: Help the homeless and help us!
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