Wade Kelley (Santa Monica City Council At-large, California, candidate 2024)
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Wade Kelley ran for election to the Santa Monica City Council At-large in California. He was on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024.[source]
Kelley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Wade Kelley provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 29, 2024:
- Birth date: July 3, 1959
- Birth place: Culver City, California
- High school: I attended four different high schools. Regular Baptist high school in Martinez, California. Pinole Valley high school in Pinole California, Huffman high school in Birmingham, Alabama, And the Alabama school of fine arts in Birmingham, Alabama, where I graduated.
- Gender: Male
- Religion: Humanist
- Profession: Advocate
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Hello, my name is Wade Kelley. I am running for Santa Monica city Council. I want to stand up for human rights… And I hope you do too
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Elections
General election
General election for Santa Monica City Council At-large (4 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Santa Monica City Council At-large on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
 | Phil Brock (Nonpartisan) | |
 | Dan Hall (Nonpartisan)  | |
 | Wade Kelley (Nonpartisan) | |
| Ericka Lesley (Nonpartisan) | ||
| John Putnam (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Ellis Raskin (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Vivian A. Roknian (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Barry A. Snell (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Natalya Zernitskaya (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Oscar de la Torre (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Wade Kelley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kelley's responses.
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Hello, my name is Wade Kelley. I am running for Santa Monica city Council because I want to stand up for human rights… And I hope you do too!
I was born, right down the road in Culver City,.CA. I have lived and studied, and performed all over the country in theaters and amusement parks, and nightclubs, places of worship… And worked a lot of odd jobs! I have volunteered as an election clerk, Poll inspector, And firefighter… I returned to Southern California in 1988 and studied improv at the second city training center, at the old Mayfair Theatre. I performed in clubs, TV and movies All around Santa Monica, many right on the Third Street promenade. For the last nine years, I have been playing my guitar on the our PUBLIC Promenade. I have seen the way. The city has treated its homeless human being residents, and I have changed from being a performer, to an advocate for the homeless.
This summer, the ultra conservative Supreme Court handed down a ruling in grants Pass versus Johnson that gave cities the right to criminalize homelessness! In her dissent of that ruling, Justice Soto mayor said to keep people from sleeping as cruel and unusual punishment and goes against the eighth amendment of our Constitution! Soon after that ruling Phil Brock, Oscar de la Torre voted to criminalize, sleeping bags and bed rolls for homeless human beings! That’s inhumane! Let’s work towards solutions and Housing make a better life for all Santa Monicans! Peacelove, Wade- Human rights is my message! The US Constitution is a History of working Towards human rights! There have been setbacks, but we keep moving forward. “We are not going back! “ If we stand up for the rights of Any human we stand up for the rights of all. We need to keep integrating, working towards equal rights, equal justice, equal opportunity! “The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. “ Santa Monica, we don’t have to continue to segregate, by pushing out poor people. We can show that our government is for all of our people and lead other communities to do the same. Let’s keep working towards a better day for everyone!
- Santa Monica needs to start building more affordable housing! we have had no problem building market rate housing, but the business owners and government of Santa Monica have been pushing against building affordable housing. So much so, that the state of California took away its zoning rights for a couple of months and 2022! Since Santa Monica became compliant with the California department of housing and community development through its reworked housing elements plan… Santa Monica has fallen far behind in the goals set for affordable housing. While, more rich people housing Is being built all the time! This is the fault of bad leadership, not helping to move the community forward. Lack of affordable housing makes for a bad democracy!
- Santa Monica needs to continue to integrate and work toward a more vibrant, democracy! We are one of the most expensive cities. We have to help show that progressive government can help the poor and working poor survive, and not let our local democracy, be controlled by only rich and the property owners… Especially, next Our PUBLIC BEACHES! Our leaders need to propose some affordable housing be built on some small percentage of the 200 acres that will open up from the Santa Monica airport in 2028! To have that much land open up and only be used for a great park, during a housing crisis, is irresponsible and cruel. How many homeless will be sleeping in that great park, if we do nothing about this housing crisis, this homelessness crisis?
Housing the homeless! Affordable housing! Continuing to work To integrate our society. Equal rights equal justice, equal opportunity! We need to keep working for amore perfect union! We haven’t gotten there yet! We can provide every human being the basics in this richest, most powerful country in the world! And Santa Monica can show that local government can have an impact on the lives of people it represents… Not just the rich in the powerful… Not just the business owners and the property owners… But all of its human beings! Peace love, Wade
Santa Monica city Council has a lot of power to determine the path that Santa Monica will take into the future. Especially, toward building affordable housing and lifting people out of poverty. Working to integrate the city and making for a more inclusive democracy.
The Constitution of the United States, the grapes of wrath, limelight.
Honesty. Standing up for human rights. Listening and talking to the people you are representing. standing up for those who don’t have a big voice, those that are in need those that are suffering, those that without government would not be represented! When it comes right down to it the rich and the powerful don’t need a government they will do fine on their own. A government of the people for the people and buy the people is for those who would suffer under the rule of Rich oppressors. We have done a very good job of being kind to the greedy in this country. There is no reason for people to be having space races while poor people sleep in the streets. We are moving further into a technological age, where more and more jobs will be done by robots computers, artificial intelligence… We need to find a way to make sure that human beings will be able to have the basics. That human beings will continue to have a voice in our way of life and our government. We need to make sure that while rich people are using warehouses and buildings to house their Toys that make them money. We will not continue to let our government push poor people out into the streets where they are treated like garbage! In 1944 the great president Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a speech “the second bill of rights “you can watch it on YouTube. In this speech, he said, among other things,
It is time for a second Bill of Rights, where every American has the right to a decent place to live! Every American has the right to a job that pays a living wage! Every American has the right to healthcare! And, every American has the right to a good education! I paraphrased. And, there were other points. But, these were some of the goals, And we still haven’t achieved those goals today… 80 years later! We have to keep moving forward! We don’t need to limit peoples dreams, but we should limit the level of poverty that keeps Human beings sleeping in the streets!
It is time for a second Bill of Rights, where every American has the right to a decent place to live! Every American has the right to a job that pays a living wage! Every American has the right to healthcare! And, every American has the right to a good education! I paraphrased. And, there were other points. But, these were some of the goals, And we still haven’t achieved those goals today… 80 years later! We have to keep moving forward! We don’t need to limit peoples dreams, but we should limit the level of poverty that keeps Human beings sleeping in the streets!
Do you work to protect its residents from violence or catastrophe. To work towards equal rides, equal justice, equal opportunity. To stand up for human rights and speak out against injustice and hatred, and to Lead it’s constituents toward those goals, and work towards solutions for the problems that the city faces, while standing up for the rights of every one of its citizens! To work towards a more perfect union.
I’d rather be a bum than a billionaire, by Wade Kelley
Yes, and I hope to find more of them out.
Beneficial, yes. But, There are many well paid people in positions to help figure out the best way to get things done. It still comes down to the direction you are leading people and it doesn’t matter if you know how to get things done if you are leading people in the wrong direction! That’s why we need leaders who will work toward equal rights, equal justice, equal opportunity for all, and stand up for human rights!
Listening to people. A curiosity to find out best practices. A curiosity to find out options that haven’t been tried that can help move things forward. The ability to stand up against those who would keep things from moving forward. And the ability to stand up for those in need.
The city Council of Santa Monica can change laws , Raise taxes, lead the city employees in certain directions. It’s a very powerful position.
None that I know of.
Be transparent about every action and government Within the legal bounds. And work towards making all government transactions more open to the public.
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