Nafissi vows to fight
Candace Nafissi. Courtesy photo Candace Nafissi has been eager to jump back into the electoral waters. Just days after her 2015 campaign, in which she fell short to rival Christian Horvath in a recount that followed a runoff election, by only a handful of votes, she made the first indication she would again challenge to represent Redondo Beach’s District 2 in four years: changing her Facebook campaign page to read “Candace Nafissi for City Council 2019.” The campaign trail hasn’t been especially kind to her — in our interview, she repeatedly apologized for the cold she caught while meeting her possible constituents. (“I’ve been campaigning for eight weeks. I haven’t been sick all year, but as soon as I started shaking hands, I got sick,” she said.) But she’s not complaining. “I feel an inherent responsibility to bring city government back to the residents. It’s been far removed from the residents for some time,” Nafissi said. “We’ve had four years of leadership that have ignored them,” indicating Horvath. She cites the vote made by Horvath to comply with 2014’s Senate Bill 415, a state law that required all cities to align their odd-year municipal elections with even-year…
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