{"id":24934,"date":"2026-06-19T00:24:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/tanya-tsikanovsky-enters-west-hollywood-city-council-race-wehoonline-wehoonline-com\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:24:45","slug":"tanya-tsikanovsky-enters-west-hollywood-city-council-race-wehoonline-wehoonline-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/tanya-tsikanovsky-enters-west-hollywood-city-council-race-wehoonline-wehoonline-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Tsikanovsky Enters West Hollywood City Council Race | WEHOonline &#8211; WEHOonline.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanya Tsikanovsky is a first-generation American, a lesbian, a proud Zionist, and a Republican running for West Hollywood City Council. She&#8217;s the kind of candidate some people here don&#8217;t quite know what to do with. She&#8217;s counting on that \u2014 and she&#8217;s counting on you keeping an open mind.<br \/>Tsikanovsky, 37, is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/wehoonline.com\/2026-city-council-race-candidates-erickson-byers\/\">several candidates who have filed<\/a> for the November 2026 West Hollywood City Council race, where three seats will be on the ballot.<br \/>She grew up in and around West Hollywood. She was born at Hollywood Presbyterian. Her first gay pride was here. The first bar she walked into with a fake ID was The Abbey. She went to TigerHeat. She went to Rage. She went to Micky&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"emp-87aee\" class=\"emp-action emp-ad\" style=\"width:100%;text-align:center;\"> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" data-cfasync=\"false\">var rnd=Math.floor(Math.random()*10e6);var pid663475=rnd;var plc663475=window.plc663475||0;var abkw=window.abkw||'';var absrc='https:\/\/ads.empowerlocal.co\/adserve\/;ID=181918;size=0x0;setID=663475;type=js;sw='+screen.width+';sh='+screen.height+';spr='+window.devicePixelRatio+';kw='+abkw+';pid='+pid663475+';place='+(plc663475++)+';rnd='+rnd+';click=CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER';var _absrc=absrc.split(\"type=js\");absrc=_absrc[0]+'type=js;referrer='+encodeURIComponent(document.location.href)+_absrc[1];document.write('<scr'+'ipt src=\"'+absrc+'\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/'+'script>');<\/script><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;These were all, like, at the forefront of my life,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They are what made me.&#8221;<br \/>Her parents immigrated from the USSR in 1979 \u2014 refugees, she said, assisted by the Jewish Federation. They landed in West Hollywood, part of the Russian Jewish immigrant community that has deep roots here. Her mother became an LVN, then an RN, then started home healthcare companies specifically to serve the immigrant population \u2014 nurses who spoke Russian, Farsi, every language the community needed. Tsikanovsky grew up playing basketball and tennis at Plummer Park. She still has extended family in the City.<br \/>She came out at 14 in 2001. She was attending Brentwood High School.<br \/>&#8220;I was the first person at my high school to come out as a lesbian,&#8221; she said. She started the Gay-Straight Alliance \u2014 it\u2019s still there.<br \/><b>From GSA to Grad School in Tel Aviv<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158467\" style=\"width: 1012px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"158467\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wehoonline.com\/tanya-tsikanovsky-west-hollywood-city-council\/da30d5ba-02d0-4bcc-b3f6-79f7d1b8eda6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/da30d5ba-02d0-4bcc-b3f6-79f7d1b8eda6.jpg?fit=1012%2C570&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1012,570\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"da30d5ba-02d0-4bcc-b3f6-79f7d1b8eda6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tel Aviv Pride | Tanya Tsikanovsky&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/da30d5ba-02d0-4bcc-b3f6-79f7d1b8eda6.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158467\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/da30d5ba-02d0-4bcc-b3f6-79f7d1b8eda6.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/da30d5ba-02d0-4bcc-b3f6-79f7d1b8eda6.jpg?w=1012&amp;ssl=1 1012w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/da30d5ba-02d0-4bcc-b3f6-79f7d1b8eda6.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/da30d5ba-02d0-4bcc-b3f6-79f7d1b8eda6.jpg?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tel Aviv Pride | Tanya Tsikanovsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After high school, she went on Birthright. Fell in love with Israel. Enrolled in grad school through NYU \u2014 an accelerated master&#8217;s program in organizational behavior management, located at a technical university outside Tel Aviv. Graduated. Came back to the States and worked as a Hillel director, which took her back to Israel to staff more Birthright trips. She didn&#8217;t return again until December 2025, when she went on a foreign ministry innovation delegation, and then again this month for Pride.<br \/>She has a tattoo on her arm that says &#8220;live who you are.&#8221; People always ask her if it&#8217;s supposed to say &#8220;love.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;I was like, no,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If you can walk your identity and you own it, that&#8217;s the most liberating thing that you can do for the people around you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158472\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"158472\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wehoonline.com\/tanya-tsikanovsky-west-hollywood-city-council\/8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576.jpg?fit=2420%2C1362&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2420,1362\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tel Aviv Pride, 2026 | Tanya&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-158472\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576.jpg?resize=1066%2C600&amp;ssl=1 1066w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576.jpg?resize=2048%2C1153&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8fb6a325-8dce-43f3-b55b-51570e5d4576.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tel Aviv Pride, 2026 | Tanya Tsikanovsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When we caught up with her after she had just returned from Tel Aviv. She had traveled as part of an international Pride delegation that included representatives from Cameroon, Rwanda, South Korea, Venezuela, Thailand, and the Philippines.<br \/>\u201cIt was beautiful to see it for the first time through their eyes,\u201d she said.<br \/><b>October 7th and a Party Switch<\/b><br \/>For her entire adult life, Tsikanovsky voted Democratic. Up and down the ticket. She even moved to Iowa to work on Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Iowa campaign in 2016. \u201cI couldn\u2019t wait to vote. I had never once voted red. I thought I was gonna die a bleeding Democrat.\u201d<br \/>Then October 7th happened.<br \/>She was playing in a recreational basketball league at the time \u2014 one she&#8217;d been part of for five seasons, one where she&#8217;d become a captain, where she&#8217;d had teammates over to her apartment. People who knew she was Jewish. Who knew she was a Zionist. Who knew she&#8217;d gone to grad school in Israel.<br \/>&#8220;Nobody cared to even ask me how I&#8217;m doing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They knew I had friends in Israel and family.&#8221;<br \/>Before Israel had even had a chance to respond, she said, half the team had stopped talking to her. They were posting with symbols associated with Hamas. She said she tried to extend grace \u2014 they were younger, maybe it was ignorance, maybe they didn&#8217;t understand the history. She kept showing up.<br \/>&#8220;I still got to play, because I&#8217;d paid to play, but they completely socially excommunicated me,\u201d she said&#8221; &#8220;To this day it hurts me. People that were eating off of my plates in my apartment no longer want anything to do with me.&#8221;<br \/>She publicly switched parties. She told people she felt she no longer had a place in the Democratic Party, that it had become anti-Semitic in ways that reminded her of history she knew too well.<br \/>&#8220;I worked for Hillary&#8217;s campaign,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I moved my life to Iowa. I had statuses that said, if he [Trump] becomes president, I&#8217;m leaving the country.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;I ended up marrying a woman and divorcing a woman in that time period,&#8221; she said. &#8220;All of the things I was concerned about as a lesbian ended up not being issues for me. But it wasn&#8217;t until October 7th that I started reassessing where I was politically.&#8221;<br \/>Framing matters to Tsikanovsky. Technically a Republican, she calls herself more of a \u201890s Democrat, a party she said no longer exists. She was very clear that this is a nonpartisan seat she\u2019s running for and that means something to her. She\u2019s not running as a Democrat or a Republican. \u201cI\u2019m running as a person who cares about West Hollywood,\u201d she said. \u201cI really want to get to a point where we can have conversations without canceling each other right away, without hating each other right away,\u201d she said. \u201cIf I can get back to the heart of this city \u2014 inclusivity \u2014 that\u2019s what West Hollywood used to always be about.\u201d<br \/><b>On Some of the Issues<\/b><br \/>She came with opinions on the issues West Hollywood residents keep raising \u2014 public safety, housing, the bike lane, parking, cannabis, and why it takes twice as long to get a permit in this city as anywhere else in LA County.<br \/>On public safety, she said she feels significantly less safe walking around West Hollywood than she did 15 or 20 years ago. She supports law enforcement having the resources and support they need and is skeptical of defunding approaches.<br \/>&#8220;My instinct is that public safety must remain a top priority,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I do not believe mental health and other specialized response programs should come at the expense of maintaining a strong sheriff presence. Residents deserve to feel safe, and law enforcement remains an essential part of that equation.&#8221;<br \/>On housing and SB 79, she said Sacramento should set goals but not dictate every zoning decision. Local communities, she said, should have a meaningful voice in how growth actually occurs.<br \/>&#8220;I recognize that California needs more housing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But I am concerned about Sacramento continuing to override local decision-making. Housing solutions should take into account neighborhood character, infrastructure, traffic, and quality of life.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;I want to have a say locally,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s part of why I&#8217;m running for local office.&#8221;<br \/>On the Fountain Avenue bike lane, she didn\u2019t hesitate.<br \/>&#8220;I am not supportive of the bike lane,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I really don&#8217;t want you to die. It&#8217;s scary enough in a car over there. I worry enough for motorcycles. Now you&#8217;re trying to have a bike \u2014 no.&#8221;<br \/>On parking requirements for new development, she made it personal.<br \/>&#8220;When it comes to parking, I certainly would want parking if I&#8217;m going to be looking for a place to live,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That was one of the experiences I had here when I was looking for a new apartment. Everything was, like, nobody had a parking spot available.&#8221;<br \/>She&#8217;s skeptical of state mandates that strip communities of that choice. &#8220;The reality is that most West Hollywood residents still rely on cars,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Eliminating parking requirements without addressing existing parking challenges risks creating additional burdens for residents and businesses.&#8221;<br \/><b>Cannabis<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158468\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"158468\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wehoonline.com\/tanya-tsikanovsky-west-hollywood-city-council\/ad0511cd-ee3a-40ff-ba78-7673568498aa\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad0511cd-ee3a-40ff-ba78-7673568498aa.jpg?fit=1112%2C624&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1112,624\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ad0511cd-ee3a-40ff-ba78-7673568498aa\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tsikanovsky with Scott Schmidt, Executive Director of Emerald Village West Hollywood, at The Woods cannabis lounge in West Hollywood. | Tanya Tsikanovsky&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad0511cd-ee3a-40ff-ba78-7673568498aa.jpg?fit=640%2C359&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-158468\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad0511cd-ee3a-40ff-ba78-7673568498aa.jpg?resize=640%2C359&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad0511cd-ee3a-40ff-ba78-7673568498aa.jpg?resize=1069%2C600&amp;ssl=1 1069w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad0511cd-ee3a-40ff-ba78-7673568498aa.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad0511cd-ee3a-40ff-ba78-7673568498aa.jpg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad0511cd-ee3a-40ff-ba78-7673568498aa.jpg?w=1112&amp;ssl=1 1112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tsikanovsky with Scott Schmidt, Executive Director of Emerald Village West Hollywood, at The Woods &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; cannabis lounge in West Hollywood. | Tanya Tsikanovsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She spent years working in cannabis \u2014 not touching the plant, but in the technology side of the industry. Point-of-sale systems. Delivery routing. Account executive and partnerships work for companies that served cannabis businesses.<br \/>She started at Buds and Roses, one of the earliest dispensaries, back when the industry was still medicinal. Her mom was not too happy about it either.<br \/>&#8220;She was like, I moved here from the old country, I gave you the best education, you have a master&#8217;s degree, and now you sell drugs,&#8221; Tsikanovsky said.<br \/>Her support for cannabis is personal. At 26, she lost her right ovary in a cancer scare. CBD oil was what she used for pain management instead of the pharmaceuticals they offered her. The first time she mentioned it to her surgeon, the doctor was dismissive. Six months later, when she went back for the second surgery, the same doctor told her studies were showing CBD had real pain management applications.<br \/>She said she loves seeing the number of dispensaries in West Hollywood and would like to see more cannabis lounges statewide. On the City&#8217;s 2% sales tax rebate for dispensaries, she said she understands the rationale.<br \/>\u201dLicensed cannabis businesses are competing against the illicit market while facing significant taxes and regulatory costs,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If temporary relief helps legal operators stay afloat and protects jobs and tax revenue, I think it is worth it. I would want to see clear accountability and measurable results.&#8221;<br \/><b>&#8220;I Won&#8217;t Have Office Hours&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158469\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158469\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"158469\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wehoonline.com\/tanya-tsikanovsky-west-hollywood-city-council\/ad059841-712a-4913-b5d7-7807759a8cf5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad059841-712a-4913-b5d7-7807759a8cf5.jpg?fit=1683%2C946&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1683,946\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ad059841-712a-4913-b5d7-7807759a8cf5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo | Tanya Tsikanovsky&lt;\/p&gt; \" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad059841-712a-4913-b5d7-7807759a8cf5.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-158469\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad059841-712a-4913-b5d7-7807759a8cf5.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad059841-712a-4913-b5d7-7807759a8cf5.jpg?resize=1067%2C600&amp;ssl=1 1067w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad059841-712a-4913-b5d7-7807759a8cf5.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad059841-712a-4913-b5d7-7807759a8cf5.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad059841-712a-4913-b5d7-7807759a8cf5.jpg?resize=1536%2C863&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad059841-712a-4913-b5d7-7807759a8cf5.jpg?w=1683&amp;ssl=1 1683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wehoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ad059841-712a-4913-b5d7-7807759a8cf5.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo | Tanya Tsikanovsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When asked what she&#8217;d want readers to take away, she said she doesn&#8217;t expect to always have the answer. She expects to be wrong. She expects to change.<br \/>&#8220;You probably won&#8217;t always like what I say,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But I&#8217;m not gonna lie to you.&#8221;<br \/>She said her number will be public if she&#8217;s elected. She said the job won&#8217;t have office hours.<br \/>&#8220;You&#8217;ll have all my hours,&#8221; she said.<br \/>She\u2019s planning to start in July, once she officially files her candidacy \u2014 going door to door and into businesses, interviewing owners on camera, posting the conversations publicly.<br \/>&#8220;How did I know there are permitting issues?&#8221; she said. &#8220;Not because I read about it. Because I keep hearing people tell me they can&#8217;t get permits even when they&#8217;ve done everything right.&#8221;<br \/>She knows not everyone will agree with her. She&#8217;s not asking them to.<br \/>&#8220;I don&#8217;t need someone to be like me for me to want good for them,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I am committed to making sure every person has a place and a voice in West Hollywood. I&#8217;m asking people to dig deeper and be open to considering all sides.&#8221;<br \/>For more information you can follow her on IG @tanya4weho.com&nbsp;<br \/><em>WEHOonline has spoken with Kyle Brazeal, Kody Christensen, Jonathan Cottrell, Tanya Tsikanovsky, and Jonathan Wilson as part of its ongoing City Council candidate series. 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