Voters re-elect Rancho Palos Verdes councilors
Election volunteers (left to right) Sharon Yoon, Bill Dytrt and Arlene Block scan ballots at the voting precinct at City Hall on Tuesday. Photo by David Rosenfeld
There will be no change to the Rancho Palos Verdes city council after 6,769 voters cast ballots in municipal elections on Tuesday to re-elect Anthony Misetich and Brian Campbell.
Ken Dyda, a founding councilmember who’s served the city in various forms over the past 40 years, received 29.7 percent of the vote. Misetich received the most votes with 35.8 percent, and Campbell with 34.5 percent. Just more than 400 votes separated the three candidates.
Misetich and Campbell were each first elected to city council four years ago among a field of eight candidates in what became one of the city’s most expensive election campaigns. This time around Brian Campbell raised $6,632 from small donors in the community and contributed $8,700 of his own money as of the October 24 campaign filing deadline.
Based on those same filings, Misetich raised $30,675 entirely from the community while not contributing any of his own money, while Dyda contributed $5,200 of his own money and raised $7,900. Dyda said he spent most of that money on postcards and a 17-point position paper he mailed to voters.
“I decided I wasn’t going to ask for money. I wouldn’t do any robo calls. I won’t clutter the city with signs,” Dyda said. “But what I would do is tell you where I stand on a number of issues facing our city.”
Campbell, who spent five of the past six weekends knocking on doors and speaking with voters, said it was a much more low key campaign than in years past.
“Even among the high propensity voters there’s a general sense that everything’s cruising along okay,” Campbell said.