Bobby Shriver, candidate for Santa Monica City Council

In an interview this afternoon with California Politics Today, Santa Monica City Council candidate Bobby Shriver said that the priority issue in his campaign was applying some new ideas to the perennial issue of homelessness, or, as he put it, the issue of "people who don't have houses."

He explained how a "dust-up" over the height of trees, combined with the "bullying" way he felt treated by the city as he dealt with that problem, led him to decide to re-focus his energies from the global arena, where he's worked to alleviate AIDS and poverty in Africa, to the City of Santa Monica, where he wants to work at "uniting" the local citizenry.

Bobby Shriver is seeking one of the four at-large city council seats at stake in this election. Other candidates include the four incumbents, two candidates backed by Santa Monicans for Renters' Rights (or SMRR, pronounced "smur"), and a number of "independents," among whom he includes himself.

Asked to toot his own horn on behalf of his campaign, the city council candidate said he was a "really, really hard worker" with "a lot of focus and energy. Focus, I think, is very important. You can't address twenty issues. I'm not a great multi-tasker, but I'm a very good one- or two-tasker."

Asked about his plans for the final pre-election push before next Tuesday's election, Bobby Shriver said, "Canvas, canvas, canvas."

To hear today's California Politics Today interview with Bobby Shriver, click here.

You can visit Bobby Shriver's Santa Monica City Council campaign web site by clicking here.