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Daniel Lee

Former Culver City councilmember and mayor

Public-record profile of Daniel Lee: Culver City office, shared 2016 endorsements, DSA-LA's 2021 State Senate campaign support, and later endorsements of Freddy Puza and Bryan Fish.

Documented record

  • Served as a Culver City councilmember and mayor.
  • Shared several 2016 organizational endorsements with Thomas Small and Meghan Sahli-Wells.
  • DSA-LA organized to elect Lee in the 2021 State Senate District 30 special election.
  • Endorsed Freddy Puza in 2022 and Bryan Fish in 2024.
  • The supplied 2016 filings reconcile $5,621 in the amended pre-election period and $2,294 in the later nonoverlapping period, or $7,915 monetary; the later filing resets its year-to-date column.

Primary and contemporaneous sources

2016 Democratic endorsementsOpen source ↗DSA-LA Daniel Lee campaign eventOpen source ↗Lee's 2024 Fish endorsementOpen source ↗Supplied 2016 campaign-finance reconciliationOpen source ↗

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Former Culver City councilmember and mayor

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Notes
  • Served as a Culver City councilmember and mayor.
  • Shared several 2016 organizational endorsements with Thomas Small and Meghan Sahli-Wells.
  • DSA-LA organized to elect Lee in the 2021 State Senate District 30 special election.
  • Endorsed Freddy Puza in 2022 and Bryan Fish in 2024.
  • The supplied 2016 filings reconcile $5,621 in the amended pre-election period and $2,294 in the later nonoverlapping period, or $7,915 monetary; the later filing resets its year-to-date column.

Relationships

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2022 endorsement record

CCDC endorsement history

Culver City Crossroads' July 2022 report on the Democratic Club endorsements states that Daniel Lee had endorsed Freddy Puza as his replacement.

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named endorser

DSA-LA 2022 Culver City recommendations

DSA-LA's 2022 voter guide names Daniel Lee among Freddy Puza's endorsers. Elsewhere in the same guide, DSA-LA identifies Lee as a DSA member.

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documented DSA member / candidate

DSA-LA / Culver City electoral network

Relationship: documented DSA member / candidate. Across four election cycles, DSA-LA recommended Freddy Puza, Yasmine-Imani McMorrin, Bryan 'Bubba' Fish and Kelly Kent in Culver City races. Separate records document Fish supporting DSA-LA's complete six-candidate 2026 formal slate and Fish, Puza and McMorrin endorsing DSA-backed Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez. Recommendations, formal endorsements, candidate endorsements and membership are kept as distinct relationship types.

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Organizations

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Culver City Crossroads

Culver City Crossroads is a local political/news blog whose reporting documents endorsements, candidates, organizations and political activity across multiple Culver City election cycles. Its articles appear throughout this site as sources and connect to people and organizations they document.

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political membership and electoral organization

Democratic Socialists of America – Los Angeles (DSA-LA)

DSA-LA appears repeatedly in Culver City election records through voter-guide recommendations and through documented support relationships involving DSA-LA candidates and Culver City officials. A DSA-LA recommendation is not the same as a formal chapter endorsement or proof that a recommended candidate is a DSA member.

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