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# Letter: Survey riles her
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letter-survey-riles-her/
- Published: 2013-07-10T02:57:04.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T21:25:54.000Z
- Author: Daniel Archuleta
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 13:37

Editor:

Several weeks ago … I received a call asking me to take part in a survey. Since I have strong opinions on everything, I accepted willingly. It started generally, with questions like: "How do you like living in Santa Monica?" then switched to questions about the two hotels planned for Fifth Street and Colorado Avenue.

The questions seemed to pressure me for a favorable response. For example: "How do you feel about the employees getting higher than minimum wages?" or the enormous (they had a figure which I have forgotten) increase in taxes for the city?, etc. I finally decided the survey was sponsored by the developers, lost my temper and almost shouted at them that I was dead set against the projects and that was my final answer to the projects.

Cecilia Rosenthal

Santa Monica