By Carlos Pineiro
Thank you, Edward Thomas Management Company, for your smear campaign against Santa Monica Council incumbent Kevin McKeown. Your underestimation of his constituents’ intelligence will surely ensure his re-election. Heck, many of us wish we could vote twice for the guy now. Good work.
Have you read the papers lately? Here’s what Big Business has done in our fair city in the recent past: Over-development and Big Business has ruined the character of the Third Street Promenade by turning it into a three-block long billboard for overpriced cookie-cutter retail conglomerates who can afford to pay $12.50 a square foot for rent, pushing out almost every small business that started it. Thanks. The last time Big Business underestimated our intelligence was just recently when the Macerich Company threatened to build four freakishly monstrous towers looming over the backyards of our beach bungalows, adding 3,000 car trips a day to our downtown streets. Wouldn’t that be fun?
You guys must think the Santa Monica locals are as smart as the Beverly Hillbillies. Did you really think we would be gullible enough to buy your shameful attack on Mr. McKeown? Get a clue, EMT Management. Your PR implosion just cost you millions in future revenues now that you’ve insulted the very residents of the city you do business in. You owe the residents of Santa Monica an apology. You can start by firing the knucklehead who thought it was a good idea to go after Mr. McKeown.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 6, 2006. Read the original PDF.