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# Santa Monica Statements in story an outright lie
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-statements-in-story-an-outright-lie-editor/
- Published: 2003-11-20T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:15:33.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Montana, #archive-import

*By Tom Larmore Santa Monica*

In your Nov. 17 story (SMDP, page 1) about the funding of neighborhood groups, Doris Sosin is quoted as telling the City Council that North of Montana Association was not campaigning against Proposition A. This assertion can only be charitably described as disingenuous — to put it more bluntly, it is simply a lie. Anyone who saw the two-page mailer distributed north of Montana by the NOMA Board during the Prop. A campaign would be astounded to hear it called anything other than campaigning against the measure — the clear intent was to discourage voters from voting in favor. The fact that north of Montana homeowners voted almost 80 percent in favor of Prop. A doesn’t change the fact that NOMA tried its best to defeat it. It only shows how out of touch NOMA is with its supposed constituency.

Solidifying the falsity of Ms. Sosin’s statement are the facts that NOMA was forced to register with the City Clerk as a political committee because of the funds spent on this flyer (which, of course, they failed to do until after the election was over) and that the State Fair Political Practices Commission has sent, or soon will send, a warning letter to NOMA concerning its political expenditures and reporting obligations.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 20, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/112003.pdf?ref=smdp.com)