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# Letter: Calls for Local Leaders Who Serve Residents, Not Special Interests
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/082804-story-20040828-2/
- Published: 2004-08-28T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:57:59.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

✆ “We have the worst city council ever. They do not take care of the residents’ needs. They shut down all the inexpensive stores and replaced them with high-priced shops you have to be a millionaire to buy things in. Also, the new businesses have become a bit snobby. I went in to the US Bank on Wilshire and 4th. I had five $100 bills and just wanted to get twenties. They said they could not exchange money for me unless I opened an account. What kind of treatment is this? The biggest problem, relating directly back to the city council, is the homeless. Something must be done about the vagrants in this community. I step in human feces all the time. Michael Feinstein is the worst man we have ever had on the city council and I hope they are all voted out.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 28, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/082804.pdf?ref=smdp.com)