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# Letter: Criticism of withholding city funds and spending on social programs
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/060207-story-20070602/
- Published: 2007-06-02T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:55:39.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

“WITHHOLDING FUNDS FROM WHAT? Not from their own self-serving interests, and the citizens be damned. Certainly not from creating heaven on earth for the bums and freeloaders from around the country. Those things are well funded, have no fear.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 2, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/060207.pdf?ref=smdp.com)