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# Real grassroots
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/real-grassroots-editor/
- Published: 2008-09-11T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T20:59:58.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Nina Fresco*

I was disgusted to read (”Following the money,” page 4, Sept. 8) on the anti-Proposition T campaign. A few months ago, I got a letter from Planning Commissioner Terry O’Day co-chair of the anti-Prop T campaign asking fellow community leaders for our support in opposing this anti-traffic initiative. The letter referred to a grassroots campaign to defeat this measure though we now know Terry knew full well at the time what Bill Bauer reported in the Daily Press \[on Monday\] — that the campaign against Prop T is entirely developer-funded. Knowing the anti-Prop T campaign is a front for developers, I’m offended that O’Day would think that community leaders working closest with the city on improving life for residents wouldn’t know the difference between a real grassroots campaign — Prop T — and the well funded corporate attack on it that he has aligned himself with. Traffic or no traffic, these kinds of dirty tricks have no place in our city.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 11, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091108.pdf?ref=smdp.com)