Temecula City Council Candidates -- Any cycling advocates in this bunch?

Just got the list of candidates or potential candidates for Temecula City Council. Three of the names on the list are former city managers or incumbent councilmembers  (marked in red). I will leave it up to you to determine how effective you think your current city leaders have been in addressing our concerns as cyclists. If you need help, peruse previous posts here and comments from actual cyclists -- not city hall insiders or paid consultants from San Diego.


There are others on the list. So if you are one of the names on the list, or you have information about these candidates and their views on cycling, please contact me.

I do not hide behind anonymous web pages, like our consultants from San Diego (HikeandBikeTemecula.org, please, really?) or fake names on Facebook or Twitter. My name is Rick Peoples, I have lived in Rancho California (now Temecula) since 1987, and my personal email is rickpeoples@hotmail.com. And thanks to each and every one of you who took the time to comment about previous information here and at BicycleTemecula on FB and Twitter. Your comments are important to me, whether you agree with my ideas or not. We are a community, one that is being ignored by the city of Temecula, and that has to change.

I will be visiting City Hall to obtain contact information (unlike the county and other government agencies, the city does not put contact information or biographies about our potential civil servants online for constituents to peruse until the election roster is set, which is probably not the best way for us to see who is interested in leading us or get more people involved in the process of sending new faces into leadership ranks) and I plan to contact each of them about cycling issues ASAP.

But we, as a cycling community, need to get involved as a group in vetting the people who control hundreds of millions of dollars in capital improvement project monies coming to Temecula. If we were to get even a tiny percentage of those millions, think about the projects we could fund.

And do we really need more massive City Hall buildings, parking structures, or decorative fountains?


What would it be like in Temecula if we took the money for that fountain and other Council paid projects and spent it on desperately need signalization to help cyclists get through red lights, on-street bike lanes that connect and get us through particularly dangerous roadways like Margarita Road or Rancho California Road, off-street bike lanes (we can dream), or (please) a police force that is pro-cyclists and is busy out there cracking down on Temecula motorists who make roadways unsafe for cyclists.

We should be asking people who want to serve as leaders if they agree that these things are minimum requirements for Temecula cyclists. Just remember, half of the city's population throw a leg over a bicycle saddle this year and go for a spin. What are we facing out there?


Here is the list, current or former leaders in red. Like I said, you decide, but please help me update.

Thanks in advance:

Nomination Papers Filed

Ronald Bradley -- former Temecula city manager

James Cooley

Michael McCracken -- incumbent council member

Michael Naggar -- incumbent council member and mayor

Adam Ruiz

James Stewart

Nomination Papers Issued

Jeffrey Frichner

Skylar Tempel

Angel Garcia