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Candidates for Mayor Candidates for City Council
Ward 1
Sam O’Leary Tess Neff Laura Rodriguez-Carbone
Lakewood government experience: Current City Primary experience: Juvenile Court Primary experience: REFUSED TO ANSWER
Administrator, former police officer and
Council President, 6 years total on City Council magistrate.
Key issues: REFUSED TO ANSWER
For more information: LauraforLakewood.com
Key issues: maintaining public safety and core
Key Platform issues: maintaining public safety city services, creating a new senior center,
and core city services, creating a new senior center, continuing responsible development in the city.
For more information:
continuing responsible development in the city. Facebook/Tess-Neff-for-Lakewood-City-Council
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Taxes and City Spending: Helped pass 6 balanced
budgets, strategy to avoid need for any city income
Ward 2
tax increases.
For more information: Jason Shachner Brad Presutto
www.olearyforlakewood.com Primary experience: Assistant County Primary experience: REFUSED TO ANSWER
Prosecutor, for Americorps Fellow Key issues: REFUSED TO ANSWER
Key issues: Quality housing, block club For more information: bradpresutto.com
formation, and traffic congestion.
For more information:

Meghan F. George
shachnerforlakewood.com

Lakewood government experience: 2 years on Ward 3

Lakewood City Council
Key Platform issues: REFUSED TO ANSWER
John Litten Jeff Wise
Primary experience: Executive Director of Primary experience: REFUSED TO ANSWER
the Westside Catholic Center Key issues: REFUSED TO ANSWER
Taxes and City Spending: REFUSED TO ANSWER Key issues: Encouraging more block clubs, For more
limiting traffic congestion, managing information:
For more information: www.meghangeorge.com economic development wiseforlakewood.com
For more information:
Litten4Lakewood.com

WHY ARE SOME CANDIDATES REFUSING TO ANSWER IMPORTANT QUESTIONS? Ward 4

Dan O’Malley
Lakewood Neighbors for Good Government is an organization of long-time Lakewood residents, Democrats,
Republicans, and Independents, who care about our community and want to keep Lakewood moving forward. We
sent out issue questionnaires to all of the candidates, and hoped that all candidates would feel a responsibility to
answer a few basic questions about why they were running. Councilman O’Malley is unopposed in his re-election bid for
Ward 4. You can find more information about him at:
Some of the candidates immediately attacked Lakewood Neighbors and refused to answer even the most basic omalley4lakewood.com
questions. We encourage ALL Lakewood voters to research the candidates and judge for yourself.