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Campaign-money crossover

Infill / housing-policy network money

Michael Ainslie → $450 total. CCE filings record five contributions from Ainslie to Puza's 2022 committee from Oct. 23, 2022 through Feb. 2, 2023. Ainslie is an LCI/Culver City housing-policy node.

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Onward Culver City · 2022

Freddy Puza

One of the two candidates named in Onward Culver City's 2022 legal committee name. By October 22, the committee reported $12,921.86 in cumulative independent expenditures supporting Freddy Puza.

Onward Culver City →Alex Fisch →Freddy Puza →Campaign finance →Money →

DSA-LA electoral record

Recommended by DSA-LA in two Culver City elections.

DSA-LA's Electoral Politics Committee recommended Freddy Puza for Culver City Council in 2020 and again in 2022. Hernandez's 2026 campaign also lists Puza as an endorser. DSA-LA distinguishes a voter-guide recommendation from a formal chapter endorsement; these records do not establish that Puza is a DSA member.

Evidence label: electoral recommendation / candidate-support record, not proof of DSA membership. Open the sourced DSA-LA relationship record →

Documented Onward connection

Onward reported fliers, postage, postcards, mail and online advertising supporting Freddy Puza. The committee's legal name itself identified support for Alex Fisch and Freddy Puza.

Source-linked Culver City public record

Freddy Puza

Culver City mayor, councilmember and 2026 candidate

Public-record profile of Freddy Puza: Culver City Council votes, MOVE Culver City spending decisions, DSA-LA electoral support and 2026 endorsements.

Documented record

  • Elected to the Culver City Council in 2022, after the original MOVE pilot was authorized and installed.
  • Opposed major 2023 and 2024 MOVE redesign contracts, then joined the unanimous 2026 vote authorizing the eastern segment.
  • DSA-LA endorsed Puza in 2020 and recommended voting for him in its 2022 guide.
  • His 2026 endorsement roster includes current and former Culver City officials and political organizers.

Primary and contemporaneous sources

Puza campaign prioritiesOpen source ↗Puza 2026 endorsementsOpen source ↗DSA-LA 2020 voter guideOpen source ↗2026 eastern MOVE authorizationOpen source ↗

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Campaign finance

Contribution dates.

File card

Money, groups, facts, sources.

Culver City mayor, councilmember and 2026 candidate

Reported connected giving$8,328.00
Organizations
  • See the linked record.
Recipients
  • Freddy Puza for Culver City Council 2020$3,723.00
  • LOREDO FOR CULVER CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL BOARD 2026$1,160.00
  • Triston Ezidore For Culver City School Board 2026$750.00
  • FISH FOR CITY COUNCIL 2024$500.00
  • Freddy Puza for Culver City Council 2022$500.00
  • GUERRERO FOR CULVER CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL BOARD 2026$500.00
  • McMORRIN FOR CULVER CITY COUNCIL 2024$500.00
  • BARBA FOR CITY COUNCIL 2024$350.00
Notes
  • Elected to the Culver City Council in 2022, after the original MOVE pilot was authorized and installed.
  • Opposed major 2023 and 2024 MOVE redesign contracts, then joined the unanimous 2026 vote authorizing the eastern segment.
  • DSA-LA endorsed Puza in 2020 and recommended voting for him in its 2022 guide.
  • His 2026 endorsement roster includes current and former Culver City officials and political organizers.

Relationships

Documented associations.

Source-linked organizations, endorsements, events, funding relationships and other connections involving this person.

endorser

Loredo 2026 endorsements

Relationship: endorser. Culver City Crossroads reported a 2026 school-board endorsement list for Stephanie Loredo containing 30 named individual endorsers and seven organizations. This page links people already documented elsewhere on the site while preserving the full source list.

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2022 endorsed candidate

CCDC endorsement history

Relationship: 2022 endorsed candidate. Culver City Crossroads reporting documents recurring Culver City Democratic Club endorsement decisions across school-board and council elections, connecting candidates, Club activity and ballot measures through published source material.

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recommended candidate

DSA-LA 2020 Culver City recommendations

DSA-LA's 2020 voter guide recommended Puza for Culver City Council. The guide distinguishes an Electoral Politics Committee recommendation from a full DSA-LA chapter endorsement.

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recommended candidate

DSA-LA 2022 Culver City recommendations

DSA-LA's 2022 voter guide recommended Puza for Culver City Council. The guide says recommended candidates are selected by its Electoral Politics Committee and need not identify as socialists; Puza's entry also lists Daniel Lee among his endorsers.

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DSA LA recommended candidate

DSA-LA / Culver City electoral network

DSA-LA recommended Puza for Culver City Council in 2020 and again in 2022. Puza also appears as a 2026 endorser of DSA-backed Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez. The record does not establish that Puza is a DSA member.

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Organizations

Documented organization connections.

Organization records involving this person, including documented roles, campaign relationships and reporting relationships.

local political news blog

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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housing advocacy and political action committee

Abundant Housing Los Angeles / Abundant Housing LA PAC

A housing advocacy organization whose political-action committee appears repeatedly in Culver City campaign-finance filings. The contribution records below are attributed specifically to Abundant Housing LA PAC, committee ID 1442154.

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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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Campaign-finance relationships

Political contribution network.

Reported contribution links between this person and other political figures in the project database.

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Sources

Housing and organization records.

Independent analysis

Another view of the campaign data.

Culver City Election Donation Data analyzes Culver City candidate contributions by donor geography.

Sierra Club · 2022 endorsement record

Documented role in the 2022 Culver City endorsement process

Internal Angeles Chapter records document this person's role in the endorsement process involving Alex Fisch and Freddy Puza. The public record page separates recorded votes and organizational roles from attributed objections and responses.

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Onward Culver City · September 2022

The earlier committee became primarily formed to support Fisch and Puza.

The September 2022 paper Form 410 identifies Onward Culver City, committee ID 1433080, as primarily formed to support Alex Fisch and Freddy Puza. Earlier amendments document the same committee ID first under Joshua Goldstein and Karlo Silbiger, then under Nick Guthman and Patrick Meighan.

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2026 campaign-finance crossover

Triston Ezidore

2026 campaign finance records report $750.00 in contributions from Freddy Puza to Triston Ezidore's school-board committee.