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
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 3, 2016. Read the original PDF.