The People’s Choice
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By Susan Hartley
Santa Monica is up for grabs again. Forget about residents’ votes in the most recent election. Forget about democracy. That doesn’t happen in Santa Monica. SMRR and the developers are at it again.
Ted Winterer was the obvious choice for Herb Katz’s seat last year because he received the next most votes in the November 2008 election. Instead, SMRR and developers’ backroom machinations gave us Gleam Davis, who didn’t even run in 2008. Now they’re pushing for another non-candidate Terry O’Day. Not only has he never been the people’s choice, didn’t even run in 2008, but he has a history of being ultra pro-development, pushing for more and higher developments. Cry for Santa Monica.
Ted Winterer was next in line as the people’s choice. The vacant council seat should be his.
Susan Hartley
How many many more people are going to be forced to be moved out of town, how many more good propertys with trees are going to be bulldozed down, how many more people are going to be sleeping in carports and door steps and eating out of trashcans?
We do not need a pro developers on the City council or another Gleam that doesn’t care about rents and is o.king new condos for profit and citizens worried about where they will lay their head or what community they will work and live in?
Wake up Santa Monica and be counted on! Let’s have a town hall meeting and vote on a humane community, not a city of empty bldgings!