Roy Rogers Oldenkamp

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The upcoming city of West Hollywood, California city council election is shaping up to be eventful. Three seats are up for grabs, with encumbents John Heilman, Abbe Land and Sal Guarriello running for reelection. The encumbents face a gallery of new and familiar faces, from famed lesbian author Patricia Nell Warren to neighborhood activist Ed Buck, among others. Also running are artist and attorney Heavenly Wilson, and former West Hollywood council member and mayor Stephen Martin, known as Steve Martin. Ms Warren just moved to West Hollywood exclusively to run in the race and has called for a kindler, gentler campaigning. Ed Buck, Heavenly Wilson and Steve Martin are running as a slate of candidates, a unique approach of like-minded activist citizens who are pooling resources and hoping to fill all three vacant seats. Their platform includes increasing protection of historic properties in this legendary area; ethics and campaign finance reform; restrained development; and protecting the affordable housing stock in this increasingly condo-fied and expensive city. The incumbents are concerned with chickens enclosed in too constrictive of cages and defending their denial of approval of the world's largest organ, a gift from residents. The upcoming March 6 election may well unseat some of the longest seated politicians of any city in the United States, provided the challengers can overcome a campaign war chest by the incumbents of almost half a million dollars. City Council of West Hollywood is a paid post of $700 monthly.[1] Roy Rogers Oldenkamp is Co-Chair of WEHONA, the West Hollywood Neighborhood Alliance, and writes commentary and film reviews for www.WeHoNews.com