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.