By Tony Street Santa Monica The poor need fluoridation Editor:
I’ve been a very good boy this year and would like to ask Santa Claus Monica for the following things: 1. Clean streets devoid of the stench and crimes of our never-ending homeless “citizenry,” 2. The right to add onto, demolish or do anything I damn well please to my own property without the self-appointed “historical police” sticking their noses in my business, 3. An end to the lie that rent control is for the “low-moderate income people” by means of testing EVERYONE that currently resides in a rent control apartment and then publishing the results, 4. A City Council that is truly representative of the people (not just the SMRR and unions), 5. An end to the ‘60s, cum-bah-yah, can’t-we-all-just-get-along, we-are-the-world, rent-control-living losers that populate our city, 6. Dismantle the Parking Enforcement Department (check that, dismantle the “Revenue Collection Department”), 7. Oh yeah... and, peace on Earth, good will towards mankind, blah, blah, blah …
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 16, 2002. Read the original PDF.