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# Local Dems unflagging in support
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/local-dems-unflagging-in-support-editor/
- Published: 2004-09-17T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:05:43.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Malibu, #archive-import

*By Marcy Winograd Board member, Pacific Palisades Democratic Club; Democratic headquarters manager*

In response to “A Lesson in Flag Flying,” (SMDP, Sept. 13, page 4) the campaign staff at the Democratic Club headquarters, located at 900 Wilshire Blvd. in Santa Monica, wants to underscore our respect for the flag and all that it represents — freedom and constitutional rights — precious values in great jeopardy under the Bush Administration.

The reader who accused us of hanging the flag in the wrong direction stood on the outside, not on the inside, where our many workers, tireless volunteers committed to saving this country from a trillion-dollar deficit and a go-it-alone foreign policy, look at the flag with deep respect and admiration.

Direction, like perspective, is relative. For us, Democrats from Malibu to Venice to West Hollywood, the direction of this country is what must be changed. Another four years of George Bush means we face at least 45 million Americans without health coverage, another $2 billion on a “pre-emptive” war, oil drilling in protected waters off our beautiful California coast, a ban on a woman’s right to choose, and a first-strike nuclear policy that reverses a 50-year commitment to global cooperation.

Although the Bush Administration has turned a deaf ear to the middle class and the bleeding veterans of Iraq, the Democrats at 900 Wilshire want to listen to what every American has to say. To show that we are listening, that we are responsive, we have changed the direction of the American flag in our window. We only hope that those who, like your reader, support the Bush/Cheney ticket, think about changing the direction of this country, as well. Our lives and our nation depend on electing John Kerry for president on Nov. 2.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 17, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091704.pdf?ref=smdp.com)