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# Not buying the hype
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/not-buying-the-hype-editor/
- Published: 2006-11-03T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T22:01:37.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Willow Evans Santa Monica*

Santa Monica’s City Councilmember Kevin McKeown is being attacked by the Edward Thomas Management Company (“Attack on the airwaves,” Oct. 25, page 1) over issues that they don’t really care about. They are using them as a guise to get McKeown off the council because he cares about our city and is an impediment to their plans to ruin it. McKeown is ethical and compassionate. The Edward Thomas Company has an ulterior motive and we Santa Monicans aren’t buying it.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 3, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/110306.pdf?ref=smdp.com)