Dear Editor,
As a fifty-year resident of Culver City, I can no longer support Mayor Yasmine-Imani McMorrin for another term on the Culver City Council. Her staunch opposition to considering a ceasefire resolution by the Council is an inexplicable betrayal of her purported progressive values. Has she no empathy for the ongoing slaughter and starvation of innocent children in the Israel war against Palestinians?
Over the past six months, Culver City residents again and again urged the Council to place a ceasefire resolution on forthcoming agendas for discussion. Hundreds gathered at the August 12 Council meeting, and they have raised their voices at every Council meeting since. Again and again, their voices were met with silence, deafening silence. Our mayor voted thumbs down as did all other members when Councilman Dan O'Brien courageously moved to support the request to consider the resolution for discussion.
Most of those advocating for a ceasefire in the Israel/Palestine War understood that the three conservative members of the Council (Vera, O'Brien, and Eriksson of Culver City Democrats United) would most likely resist all ceasefire appeals, but they were stunned to find that the so-called progressive members, McMorrin and Puza, stoutly opposed even discussing the issue
What is going on with McMorrin?
Does she think that a ceasefire resolution plays into the hands of Hamas, that Israel's ongoing slaughter of innocents is justifiable retribution for the horrendous murder of innocent Israeli Jews by Hamas? That when having to choose between committing an unspeakable injustice and survival it's always okay for Israel to choose survival no matter the human cost, no matter the horror?
Word on the street is that McMorrin and other candidates for the city council fear retribution from pro-Israel forces in the city, fear being doxxed, and fear having their families harassed if they support a ceasefire.
Some of her supporters contend that McMorrin is the lesser of two evils compared to Albert Vera (Hackman-Mega-Developer-Chamber-of-Commerce Machine) and the like-minded candidates Vera supports. McMorrin is a progressive, albeit a pragmatic one, and her rise to power is fundamentally all that matters-so the argument goes.
More than a few residents frustrated by McMorrin's opposition to a ceasefire resolution, suggest facetiously that she is but a typical politician, one who has entered a "Faustian Bargain" of sorts, willing to abandon principles at times in exchange for power and ascension to higher office.
Because of her steadfast opposition to a ceasefire resolution, I can no longer support Yasmine-Imani McMorrin's election to the City Council. I have no idea what's going on with McMorrin, but she should be held accountable politically. She has lost my vote, sadly.
Ronald L. F. Davis
Culver City
Reader Comments(1)
Margit writes:
Thank you for these comments . I will vote for Yasmine.Demands for a cease fire, Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and the creation of two states for two peoples are fueling, rather than extinguishing, conditions for war. Ceasefire and withdrawal mean the preservation of the Hamas terrorist organization and the perpetuation of the massacre, violence, and kidnapping of Jews. The demand for a Palestinian state means a military threat to Israel to its east, in addition to the threat to its existence
10/20/2024, 3:50 pm