Culver Crescent to release 2026 Voters Guide on October 1

Culver Crescent is pleased to announce that the 2026 Culver Crescent Voters Guide, a one-stop shop for Culver City residents seeking information before voting in the November 2026 Election, will launch on Thursday, October 1, on the Culver Crescent website.

Along with the page's debut, publication dates for interviews with candidates for the two City Council seats and three Culver City Unified School District Board of Education seats will be released to the public next Thursday. The questions for these interviews were based on feedback from Culver City residents and are intended to give voters a way to directly compare candidates' opinions on key issues.

Specific guidelines were implemented to ensure these interviews give candidates equal and ample time to express their views and platforms on a non-partisan platform. Culver Crescent has not and will not endorse any candidate or measure in political races, and all information presented is meant to serve a purely informational purpose.

This page will also feature analysis of ballot measures that Culver City voters will help decide. This includes both the 14 statewide measures, which will have varying levels of impact on Culver City, and the three local measures whose fate lies entirely with Culver City residents.

The 2026 Culver Crescent Voters Guide will be found at www.culvercrescent.com/2026-election/ once it is released to the public.

A Message from Publisher Christian May-Suzuki

As the title suggests, I have envisioned this page to serve as an unofficial voters’ guide targeted at Culver City residents to give residents who are busy with their daily lives a focused place to find all of the information they need to make an informed decision in the 2026 Election.

An informed voter base is crucial to ensuring municipalities at all levels operate in ways that align with residents' values, and local news sources that would normally provide many people with information about their own cities are struggling to maintain their place in public discourse.

I hope that those who aren’t involved in the political scene in Culver City can use the completed voter guide to easily gather the information they need to make informed choices at the ballot in November.

That said, I would also like to take a moment to apologize to one of the candidates for shortcomings in this coverage cycle. When I initially sent out information about the Culver Crescent Candidate Series, one candidate had not yet officially announced his participation: Franklin Carvajal.

As many people who have encountered me in the field know, I am mostly a one-person show, and that has consequences. Many of the candidates running this election season are people that I have known far before the election and who sent me press releases announcing their candidacy. This made it easier for me to compile their names together early in the process and send them information long before

Unfortunately, I left Carvajal out of that group, not knowing he was running until I checked the candidate filings after I sent out information to the other candidates. Amid the many things I was doing at the time to keep up with election coverage and the current news in the city, sending Carvajal the email with information about the 2026 Candidate Series fell through the cracks.

This particular mistake is more consequential and left a candidate behind on important news coverage, which I sincerely regret. I want to reassure both Mr. Carvajal and the public that we are taking every measure to ensure maximum transparency and fairness in presenting information about each candidate and their platforms in the 2026 Culver City Voters Guide.