Stephen Murray Joins the Culver City Council Race

Stephen Murray brings the number of candidates running for four available seats in the April 10 Culver City Council elections to six.

According to Murray’s website, he is the “progressive choice for change in Culver City.”

An energy consultant and a shareholder of Sunstruction Inc, Culver City’s only Home Performance Contracting business, Murray’s website also states that he can be found “at any time of day under, on top of, or inside a building discovering, notating and fixing flaws in its thermal envelope and guiding homeowners towards responsible energy usage.”

In an email to Culver City Patch, Murray said he is running for a seat on the council because “I see a need for Culver City to change from the direction the current council is taking it”

Murray said the City “has been running [at] a deficit throughout each of the incumbents terms and it will burn through its cash reserves. This mismanagement had been going on before the state took away our redevelopment funds and now it's only worse.”
Murray said his campaign is about “driving the city to become more sustainable: economically, culturally and environmentally.”

Citing downtown, Murray said he believed while it feels vibrant it is ultimately “fragile and unsustainable. It needs stronger retail and it needs to provide services and products to a larger demographic of our city’s residents. Most of the city’s sales tax revenue, which is our primary income, comes from places outside of our downtown. The current council has acted too narrowly to address our future. We need to look at all of our city’s long terms needs and create actionable strategic plans to help the city prosper,” he said.

Murray also stated that he is working on updating his website, which he said is still in a “skeleton” stage. However, when Patch asked about who has endorsed him, Murray said he does not advertise his endorsements.

“I see how the past elections have degraded into a who-is-supporting-who comparison versus addressing the pressing issues that the city has to grapple with,” he said.

Murray’s website can be found at http://murrayforculvercity.com

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