Conley Ulich, Wagner and Sibert Win Malibu
City Council Seats
• 35 Percent of Registered Voters Cast
Ballots in Tuesday’s Election
With all but 17 of the 2901 ballots cast in
Tuesday’s municipal election counted by 2 p.m. on
Wednesday, the winners of the three seats on the Malibu
City Council were unofficially declared to be Pamela
Conley Ulich, Jefferson “Zuma Jay” Wagner and John
Sibert.
Conley Ulich, resoundingly demonstrating
the power of incumbency and broad-based campaigning,
was the top vote-getter with 2115 votes.
A self-described outsider, Wagner garnered
a solid second place with 1686 votes, more than 260 votes ahead
of establishment insider/planning commission member John
Sibert who received 1419.
The 17 votes that still have to be counted
are insufficient to alter the final vote order.
Barring a request for a recount
by fourth place finisher Kathy Wisnicki—a school
board member running what was seen as a quasislate campaign
with Sibert—who received 1392 votes (27 fewer than
Sibert), these results will be certified by the city clerk
and deemed official.
Fifth-place finisher Susan Tellem received
1163 votes, despite an attempt to piggyback some of her
campaign materials with Wagner’s candidacy.
Measure D, the utility tax that the city
asked voters to support to add taxation on cell phones and
other electronics, in addition to land lines, passed 1657 to
961.
Measure E, a non-binding advisory vote
to ask voters if they would recommend that the city council
consider implementing a view protection ordinance won by 1624
to 1068.
