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# City Hall has money for a mural?
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/city-hall-has-money-for-a-mural-editor/
- Published: 2004-05-06T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:16:55.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Don Johnson Venice*

Talk about foolish things to do when funding is tight at all levels statewide — Santa Monica spending $100,000 of hard earned taxpayer’s money to pay some outsiders, the “eastside streetscape” (smacks of former guerilla grafitti writers) artists to paint a new mural at the new Virginia Park reconstruction project has to top the list (SMDP, May 4, page 1). And I suppose it will have some kind of Latino theme to it to boot... Like that’s the only ethnicity that should be represented anywhere around here. Better to cancel the mural painting and use the $100,000 to help feed the unfortunate homeless, deprived of any work on that huge government block grant funded project, and who are the brunt of so much hate and bashing in Santa Monica these days.

Or let the artists paint the mural, if they agree to donate the $100,000 to feed the poor.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 6, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/050604.pdf?ref=smdp.com)