2015 Year in Review: Redondo Beach council politics: A year of campaign dustups, lines in the sand and recusals
Christian Anthony Horvath shares a kiss with his wife on May 12. Horvath ended the night down 16 votes, but came ahead of his opponent, Candace Allen Nafissi, by 12 votes during a second ballot count on May 18. Photo Last March, a wide-open field of seven candidates stood in competition for two seats on the Redondo Beach City Council. Two months and one runoff election later, Redondo Beach had its two newest members of the Council: District 3’s Christian Horvath and District 5’s Laura Emdee. Christian Horvath and Candace Nafissi were the two candidates left standing in the March 3 General Election’s race for the Redondo Beach City Council’s District 3 seat, beating out Sandy Marchese, Sam Kartounian and Eric Coleman to continue on to a runoff election two months later, in May. The race between the two was quickly split down ideological lines. Nafissi allied herself with District 2 councilman Bill Brand and waterfront development activists Jim Light and Todd Loewenstein. She quickly joined in the fight against Measure B, saying that AES was “taking advantage of the community,” making it her mission to fight for her neighbors that couldn’t make it out to City Council. Horvath, on…
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