LAST MINUTE POLITICAL BLITZ

Over the past few days, a series of deceptive pamphlets have suddenly appeared in mailboxes and on doorsteps in the Ocean Park and Mid Cities neighborhoods.  In Ocean Park, the misleading pieces have been left on gates and doorsteps in reusable bright green shopping bags emblazoned with the names of candidates they support. 

These fallacious pamphlets are promoting pro development candidates for city council with the exception of Ted Winterer, who has a record of voting against projects with negative impacts on our community.

They make up generic, plain vanilla neighborhood values that are the opposite of what these developers want to bring to our city.  The developers then claim that “their” candidates are for these “pretend” values.  

There are NO neighborhood associations in front of or behind this cynical political advertising.  This attempt to hide behind neighborhoods and neighborhood groups is meant to fool voters in order to re elect incumbents Gleam Davis and Terry O'Day to a council that will continue to approve their massive projects.

The seven neighborhood associations in Santa Monica;

Friends of Sunset Park,

North of Montana Association,

Northeast Neighbors,

Ocean Park Association,

Pico Neighborhood Association,

Santa Monica Mid City Neighbors and

Wilshire/Montana Neighborhood Coalition

have worked long and hard on big issues facing Santa Monica, including over development and traffic, not the values falsely ascribed in these mailers.  The reputations of the neighborhood groups are being negatively impacted by this flurry of political advertising and by endorsements none of them has or would make.

Voters Beware

Expect this last minute political advertising whirlwind by the developer Pac, Santa Monicans United for a Responsible Future, to arrive at your home before the election – the PAC has plenty of money to spend and millions to lose if their don't get their way.