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# Letter to Editor: Repudiation and clarification
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letter-to-editor-repudiation-and-clarification/
- Published: 2016-11-03T16:00:50.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T21:49:41.000Z
- Author: Editor
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, editor, Kevin McKeown, letter, Letter to editor, letter to editor santa monica, Measure LV, santa monica editor, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 14:35

Editor:

Residents are advising me they’re receiving a printed piece with the headline “A message from Kevin McKeown about the dangers of LV.”

This piece features quotes from an email I recently sent constituents. I stand by those quotes, and my reasons for urging a “no” vote, because Measure LV is poorly thought out, too extreme, and fatally flawed with unintended consequences.

However, the printed piece is not a “message from me.” I did not create it, I did not authorize it, and I did not pay for it. Santa Monica Forward did. I have told the paid campaigns against Measure LV that they do not have the right to speak for me, or to make it appear I speak for them, and that I would call them on it if they violated that agreement.

This is that call.

I continue to endorse a no vote on Measure LV, for reasons I have also explained here in the Daily Press, but that printed piece misrepresents my relationship with paid campaigns. I had no involvement other than to be quoted, accurately, on things I had already said independently.

Measure LV is just not good for our city. When this is over, a week from now, I will continue to work with residents to address our very real challenges.

Kevin McKeown

Councilmember