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# Letter: Reader criticizes City Council over handling of homelessness
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/091104-story-20040911-9/
- Published: 2004-09-11T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:02:29.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless, Homelessness

✆ “Seventeen years ago, when Myers was DA of Santa Monica, he let the homeless run rampant, and the City Council never said a thing. Now they’re going to take another 10 years to sort it all out. It’s about time they got their act together down there at that City Hall. They’re a poor bunch of clowns. They need to go.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 11, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091104.pdf?ref=smdp.com)