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Financing of RIFT struggle

BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer

CITY HALL When it comes to political cam- paigns, identifying the supporters could just be about following the money trail. Such has been a major topic of discussion since the Save Our City committee formed last month in opposition to a proposal that seeks to limit commercial growth in the city, the supporters of the fall ballot measure questioning their new challengers on their source of its financing. The Residents’ Initiative to Fight Traffic, recently renamed Proposition T, would restrict commercial growth in the city to 75,000 square feet a year, allowing City Hall to borrow extra space from up to four years in advance. The Coalition for a Livable City authored the measure. Brandon Wise [email protected] The opposition campaign, which is head- GOOD LIFE: The first Human Development Index determined that congressional district 30, which includes Hollywood, Santa Monica, Beverly ed by environmentalist and Planning Hills and Malibu, has one of the highest life expectancy rates in the nation. The report was released by the American Human Development Project. Commissioner Terry O’Day and Judy Abdo, a rent control advocate and employee of the school district, filed their first campaign dis- closure statement in late July, the group at Improving the human condition times accused by the pro-RIFT contingent of attempting to hide the trail of money, a claim Save Our City has denied. BY MELODY HANATANI yardstick produced every year by the graduate or professional degree, translating The records show that in just a few Daily Press Staff Writer United Nations Development Program, into a median area income of more than months, the anti-RIFT campaign was able to which annually ranks all countries based on $45,000 in 2005 dollars. raise nearly $3,000 more than their political CITYWIDE Santa Monica has some of the their health, education and income, the The average life expectancy for residents adversaries had since the beginning of the healthiest, longest-living, smartest and index first released in 1990 as a way of in the district is 79.9 years. year, the Save Our City group receiving more richest people around. determining human progress. “As Santa Monicans, we are fortunate on than $68,000 as of June 30. That’s the conclusion of a recently The report rated congressional district key human development indices — long Part of the reason for the financial advan- released report by the American Human 30, which includes Hollywood, Santa life, educational attainment and earning — tage could be attributed to a number of big Development Project, which ranked all 436 Monica, Beverly Hills and Malibu, as the and on our willingness to give back,” Santa donations, including $10,000 from the congressional districts in the country based fifth highest in the country. The region, Monica City Manager Lamont Ewell said. Edward Thomas Management Company, on their general well-being. which is represented by democratic “This reaffirms the city’s priorities for com- which owns the Casa del Mar and Shutters The first Human Development Index Congressman Henry Waxman, saw strong munity investment in education, good jobs, on the Beach hotels, and an equal amount measures a given district’s overall health marks in the area of education and health. healthy living as well as care for our most from Belle Vue Plaza, a property owner. and economic status and progress, using The district topped the report’s educa- vulnerable.” “The Save Our City campaign should be factors that include the community’s aver- tion index with approximately 57 percent The report, which was funded by the called ‘Save Our Developers,’” Diana age life expectancy, education and income of its adults over the age of 25 possessing at Conrad Hilton Foundation and the Gordon, the co-chair of the Coalition for a level. least a bachelor’s degree. Approximately 24 The findings are modeled after a similar percent of residents in the district have a SEE LIVING PAGE 10 SEE MEASURE PAGE 10

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BY CHRISTINA YOON Special to the Daily Press their ears THIRD STREET PROMENADE On some mornings, hitting the snooze button one Local Internet company more time can seem like the most important thing in the world. signs new licensing Nutritionists and health experts agree, however, that those extra 10 minutes are deal with Universal, much better spent eating a quick and nutritious breakfast to help maintain EMI to publish lyrics weight, fight off diabetes and help keep the heart healthy. BY DAILY PRESS STAFF “If you’re not eating breakfast you’re keeping your metabolism sluggish,” said CLOVERFIELD BLVD ARTISTdirect, Inc., a Susan Dopart, a registered dietitian and leading Internet resource for music and exercise physiologist based in Santa entertainment news, has entered into a Monica. licensing partnership with Universal Music While Dopart creates customized eating Publishing Group, the world’s leading global schedules for her clients, she said that it’s music publishing company, and EMI Music not difficult for anyone to improve their Publishing for rights to the lyrics of some overall health with breakfast, as long as their most popular songs. they know which foods to choose. Through the deal, which was announced “What a lot of people don’t realize is on Monday, lyrics to Universal and EMI that eating a big bowl of cereal can have as songs will be featured in a new interactive many carbohydrates as six, seven, eight lyrics section launching this fall on slices of bread and it raises your blood ARTISTdirect.com, which is based in Santa sugar,” she said. “When you eat more pro- Monica. tein, you don’t get so much of an insulin Financial terms of the deals were not dis- response, which makes your hunger more closed. even.” The licensing partnership opens the She suggests breakfasts of eggs, cottage vaults of the publisher powerhouses to give cheese with fruit or plain yogurt with fruit ARTISTdirect fans for the first time easy and nuts. access to legal, accurate song lyrics from top Dopart said that kids with packed music acts past and present from current school schedules are even more likely to chart toppers to beloved classics. skip breakfast. Artists featured include Prince, Barry “They have to leave at 7:10 [a.m.] and Manilow, 50 Cent, Mariah Carey, U2 and they’re getting up at 7:00 and dashing off Elton John. to school,” she said. Most lyric databases are fan-generated This week, the California Milk and often not 100 percent accurate. Processor Board began an initiative on “Universal Music Publishing Group has their GOT MILK? Web site, gotmilk.com, an amazing catalog of award-winning to provide quick and easy breakfast recipes music and we are privileged to be able to targeted to kids. The idea is to provide fun provide the words to songs that have so ideas like smoothies or portable granola profoundly impacted our culture,” said treats that can be prepared in three min- Dimitri Villard, interim CEO of utes or less. ARTISTdirect. “This partnership helps The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified create one of the largest repositories for School District provides breakfast to stu- official lyrics as written by the songwrit- dents in all of its middle and high schools ers.” and four elementary schools. The upcoming launch of the new lyrics Orlando Griego, the director of food pages fortify ARTISTdirect as one of the best services for the district, said that low partic- destinations for music fans looking for ipation rates and cost issues prevented the information, news and entertainment on district from offering breakfast at more ele- every musical act in a multitude of genres, mentary schools. Villard said. “Getting up isn’t the easiest thing,” he File photo Users will be able to access layers of inter- GOOD EATS: The California Milk Processor Board has began an initiative to provide quick and SEE BREAKFAST PAGE 9 easy breakfast recipes. The board has created tips to help people prepare quick and easy meals. SEE LYRICS PAGE 8 Since 1967 Quality & Value Always! Open 6am - 2:30pm Mon. - Fri. 6am - 4pm Sat. - Sun.

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PUBLISHER LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Going Postal Ross Furukawa Send comments to [email protected] Steve “the Mailman” Breen Send comments to [email protected] [email protected] EDITOR IN CHIEF For the record Kevin Herrera Editor: [email protected] In [letter to the editor published] in your Aug. 15 Multicultural meltdown MANAGING EDITOR paper, I was, by name, falsely accused of deceiving your Daniel Archuleta readers in my statements regarding RIFT. [email protected] The [letter] accused me of being deceptive by not LIBERAL-ISH MULTICULTURALISM IS Yet this is all morally transient for the stating that facilities for children must provide daycare allegedly the Teflon coating on the sticky self-righteous rubes according to the STAFF WRITER to qualify for an exemption from RIFT; I refer your melting pot of U.S. society that just simmers fetishistic rubric of their multicultural Melody Hanatani readers back to Section 2(a) of RIFT where they can into a viscous sludge of juvenile indulgence mumbo-jumbo? [email protected] read for themselves that it says “child or adult day- or so the theory goes. It is customarily symp- Watching the Spanish basketballers care” not “child or adult, daycare.” tomatic among the Pharisees of PC, howev- making “slanty eyes” for a photo op was a STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The editorial accuses me of deception by not admit- er, that their dogmatic distemper toward great belly laugh. Being half Asian myself, Brandon Wise ting that RIFT will cause a $11,000,000/year reduction anything deemed “un-PC” is invariably due I’ve been doing that “sight gag” for at least [email protected] of the city’s revenue. The $11,000,000/year is a 2023 to their own misanthropic, focus group driv- half my life without the least bit of angst- CONTRIBUTING WRITERS projection from a presentation by HR&A Advisers to en naiveté. ridden guilt from my Caucasian doppel- Bill Bauer, David Pisarra, City Council. HR&A, is a company that features on their Take the Beijing Olympics for example. ganger. I guess it comes from being in that Meredith Carroll, Kenny Mack, Web site, that they provide innovative solutions to the A recent “Q-Line” in the Santa Monica racist Republican “white party” so aptly Jack Neworth, Lloyd Garver, complex challenges of economic growth and real estate Daily Press queried as to whether respon- aped by simian Howard Dean’s most Seth Barnes, Taylor Van Arsdale, development (i.e. they are in the business of lobbying dents would watch the Games despite recent bout of hoof-in-mouth disease. Dane Robert Swanson, Ryan Hyatt, for developers). The $11,000,000/year allegation is so China’s human rights record. One individ- Give us a howl, Howie! Steve Breen, Elizabeth Brown, Maria “innovative” that the city attorney was forced to ignore ual rabidly frothed of being “… ashamed I have been frequently labeled as a Rohloff, Merv Hecht, it in her report to the state of California on the fiscal at the athletes that [went] there, but racist by liberals who profess that labeling Mike Heayn, Brian Hepp impact of RIFT. Santa Monica residents will soon be applaud the few that did not …” is an un-PC thing to do. I am not a racist. Mariel Howsepian, Cynthia Citron, getting their voting information packages from the Let me get this straight, by this tortured I hate everybody in a separate but equal Amanda Cushman and Steve Parker state of California. The neutral assessment says that illogic, should one be ashamed of Jesse fashion. RIFT has no material impact on city revenue. Owens’ dominance over Aryan “superiori- I was recently called a warmonger NEWS INTERNS The editorial also asserts I deceived your readers by ty” in the 1936 Berlin Games? Should one except that I was offended that the person Alexandra Bissonnette, Alice Ollstein, Christina Yoon, Nora Casey, not admitting that RIFT will cause a $1,000,000/year be ashamed of the U.S. women’s saber stating as such neglected to include “baby Stephanie Taft property tax loss to Santa Monica’s public schools. The team that swept the medal round in an killing cannibal” to the nomenclature. [email protected] $1,000,000 is another “innovative” 2023 projection Asian country of hereditary swordsmen? All kidding aside, in order to transcend from the HR&A presentation. It is based on very high Should those young ladies have remained the all-encompassing capricious canards PHOTOGRAPHY INTERNS assumption for future commercial development, very in the scullery where they belong? The of race, gender, creed, sexual orientation Morgan Genser, Soraya Danesh low assumptions for future residential development, next thing you know some whack job will and bad hairstyles, I have simply found it [email protected] and completely ignores that the property tax revenue, advocate that a woman should be elected more effective to determine if the focus of directed to public schools, is combined into a common president. my ire is a mere jackass. It’s more univer- ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER fund for all students in the state of California. Students Should we be ashamed of Michael sally utilitarian. Rob Schwenker of Santa Monica make up only 1/10 of 1 percent of all Phelps’ immodest achievement of 14 Anybody see “Tropic Thunder”? Robert [email protected] students in California. Even if the alleged $1,000,000 in career gold medals? After his eighth gold, Downey Jr. stole the show just to prove ADVERTISING ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES lost revenue was real, the cost to Santa Monica schools if Phelps were a country unto himself, he that “Amos and Andy” are still funny while Julie Martinez would only be $1,000. And to put $1,000 into prospec- had been tied for fifth place with South a Senior Deputy Superintendent for [email protected] tive, one only needs to look at how much Santa Monica Korea, Japan and Australia. He beat the LAUSD, Ramon Cortines, took great Robert Hertel schools lose because funding public schools is not a entire Russian delegation that day. offense at the use of the word “retard” in [email protected] priority for the city of Santa Monica. The city of Beverly Another “Q-Line” respondent viscerally the movie while finger wagging at Hills contributes 5.3 percent of its budget to its city’s harrumphed over Chinese gastronomical Hollywood’s ignorance to “the sensitivities Erin Collins public schools. This compares to the city of Santa peculiarities due to the inclusion of com- of people with intellectual disabilities.” [email protected] Monica who only contributes 1.4 percent of its budget mon household pets in Beijing’s famous Considering the LAUSD’s lamentable drop ADVERTISING TRAFFIC FACILITATOR to its city’s public schools. If Santa Monica had the Bau-Wau Stir Fry Surprise. My buddy at out rate that resembles Ty Cobb’s lifetime Amber Kessee same commitment to public schools as the city of work, Dave Levin, swears, “that the only batting average, one might ask Mr. [email protected] Beverly Hills, Santa Monica schools would be getting an good dog is a hot dog.” I don’t know about Cortines as to why he is out watching no- extra $21,000,000/year. that. Have you seen what goes in those brainer satires instead of working on a OPERATIONS MANAGER Jeff Segal things? competent lesson plan to improve the for- Connie Sommerville [email protected] Santa Monica On an historical note, China has had tunes of those kids with “intellectual dis- 1,858 famines of varying severity from 108 abilities” PRODUCTION MANAGER BCE to 1911 ACE. The worst famine Who’s the real “retard” in this picture? Robert Summa Classic eats occurred during Mao’s Great Leap So welcome to being a “citizen of the [email protected] Editor: Forward from 1958 to 1961 in which the world,” ladies and gents! If everything is CIRCULATION Thanks for the story “Legendary stores thrive and official estimates of the dead ran up to 32 completely copasetic under stolid PC doc- Keith Wyatt survive” page 1, Aug. 16-17. I’ve long been fascinated by million! In context, imagine walking the trinaire multicultural standards then there Osvaldo Paganini the older businesses in our city and Nora Sorena length of California from San Diego to the should be no reasonable acid reflux con- [email protected] Casey’s story provided some interesting information. Oregon border and not encountering a cerning the provincial antics of some of However, I believe she is incorrect in stating that The single living human soul, but there are a the other “citizens.” All morality hence- Galley restaurant at 74 years is the oldest in the L.A. lot of Chihuahuas and Siamese kitties run- forth becomes amoral. area. Cole’s Pacific Electric Buffet opened downtown in ning around. No fair judging. That’s not PC! A newspaper with issues 1908. They will be reopening soon to celebrate their Do the math, pretty grisly numbers. 100th anniversary. Barney’s Beanery on Santa Monica When one’s children are starving, polit- STEVE BREEN is an Irish/Filipino poi dog that 410 Broadway, Suite B Boulevard dates to 1920 and the Tam O’Shanter dates ical correctness offers a very bare larder. doesn’t know what to celebrate at Xmas and is Santa Monica, CA 90401 to 1922. Be advised though that when traveling still “the best looking mailman at the U.S. Post OFFICE (310) 458-PRESS (7737) FAX (310) 576-9913 Don Solosan overseas, your Paris Hilton purse dog may Office.” He can be reached at Santa Monica be another person’s sack lunch. [email protected] Visit us online at smdp.com YOUR OPINION COUNTS The Santa Monica Daily Press is published six days a week, Monday through Saturday.

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OPINIONS EXPRESSED are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of the Santa Monica Daily Press staff. Guest editorials from residents are encouraged, as are letters to the editor. Letters will be published on a space-available basis. It is our intention to publish all letters we receive, except those that are libelous or are unsigned. Preference will be given to those that are e-mailed to [email protected]. All letters must include the author’s name and telephone number for purposes of verification. Letters also may be mailed to our offices located at 410 Broadway, Suite B, Santa Monica, 90401, or faxed to (310) 576-9913. All letters and guest editorials are subject to editing for space and content. Commentary Visit us online at smdp.com WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2008 5 Word in Edgewise Kenny Mack Send comments to [email protected] Don’t feel sorry

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FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND Like the rest of us, they’re getting up every GERMAN CAR SERVICE great Bostonian Tip O’Neill once said that all day and going to work, raising their kids, politics is local. He was advising politicians paying their bills, and trying to live their Specialist in Repair of Porsche VW Audi BMW in Washington that the key to their success is lives while worrying about how much it meeting the needs of their constituents back costs to fill their gas tanks and feed their I Best alternative to high dealer prices home. I’ve never seen a better illustration of families. Unlike the rest of us, if they’re being I Complete service and repair this basic truth than the difference between abused or taken advantage of at work, they I All work guaranteed the way the federal government and the Los can’t complain without having to worry Angeles city government are handling the about being the target of an (unscheduled) I Locally owned and operated since 1965 issue of illegal immigration and undocu- deportation. Imagine what it must be like to mented workers. leave the house every morning knowing that 2202 OLYMPIC BLVD., SANTA MONICA (310) 829-2563 First, let’s do the math. By most estimates, the last time you saw your kids might be the there are about 12 million undocumented last time you’ll see your kids. Think about all immigrants in the U.S. By the way, I don’t call the grief your boss gives you at work, then them “illegal immigrants” because to me, the think about how much worse it would be if label “illegal” implies that person has gone your boss had the power to kick you out of through some sort of process and been deter- the country if you mess up on the job. I was mined to have entered and/or stayed in the always one step away from choking the boss RECYCLE country “illegally.”It’s documents, or the lack of with a bike chain, so I know I couldn’t han- documents, which would determine whether dle that kind of stress every day of my life. or not an individual is here legally. So until that But such is the power of a job. As a lure to person has gone through the system and been this country (and L.A.), the promise of work is determined to have broken the law, the proper so strong that they keep coming by the millions, NOW! way to refer to someone who has immigrated even when our economy is weak. The L.A. City to this country, but may not have gone through Council knows this and, led by Bernard Parks, the proper channels, is “undocumented,” not recently passed an ordinance that would grant CARDBOARD: $115 per Short Ton “illegal.”Feel free to tell Lou Dobbs. “conditional use” permits to new big-box stores Not counting the ones with criminal (like Home Depot) that would require them to (Up to $125 per short ton) Drop-off donation bins available 24 hours in front records (a.k.a. “criminals”), the real number provide shelters for day laborers equipped with of “illegal immigrants” is about 500,000. trash cans, restrooms, and drinking water. The These are “fugitive aliens,” or people who retailers are pitching a fit because they know Santa Monica Recycling Center MICHIGAN have received deportation orders from a they’ll eventually have to provide the same 2411 Delaware Avenue in Santa Monica X 24TH judge. Immigration & Customs amenities at existing stores, but Home Depot DELAWARE AVE. Enforcement, the only agency that can can cry me a river — then build a bridge and get (310) 453-9677 CLOVERFIELD 10 WEST enforce our immigration laws, recently start- over it. Part of the appeal of these places is that ed a program called “Operation Scheduled homeowners and contractors can pick up parts, Departure” targeting those fugitive aliens supplies, and workers all in one shot. It’s not too and offering them (if I may quote Gladys much to ask that these workers have a shady Knight) a “one-way ticket back to the lives place to sit and water to drink when it’s 100 they once knew” and a scheduled deporta- degrees in the San Fernando Valley, is it? tion. The program started in Charlotte, America is well on its way to being a major- Chicago, Phoenix, San Diego and Santa Ana. ity-minority country and the fastest-growing How much is your As a solution to the problem, it’s a Band- segment of the population is Latino. In the Aid on a gaping head wound. In the first week, next few decades, one-in-three Americans will this effort netted a grand total of six people — be Hispanic. In L.A., the percentage of whites and only three who would have crossed our and Latinos is about even at 47 percent. By the southern border. There was one Estonian in time kids now in kindergarten graduate high time worth? Phoenix, an Indian couple and a Guatemalan school, whites will be a minority in this city in Chicago, a Salvadoran in Charlotte, and one and our politics will be local — and brown. Mexican in San Diego. Not surprisingly, there Start brushing up on your Spanish. wasn’t a single person who volunteered to be deported from Santa Ana. KENNY MACK is a writer and comedian living in Of those 12 million undocumented peo- Santa Monica. He can be reached at kenny- ple, about 8 million are in the workforce. [email protected]

nger service Good service Rush Messe Mixed-use development with businesses located on the ground floor has become all the rage in Santa Monica, Downtown First Local Delivery FREE especially. So this week’s Q-Line question asks: Get it done NOW! Do you consider this a good thing? Are these businesses truly neighborhood serving?

Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your answers in the (213) 482-1567 weekend edition of the Daily Press. Please limit responses to a minute or less. nowlegalonline.com 24-HOUR AT T ORNEY SERVICE *CALL US FOR DETAILS The Real Deal 6 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2008 A newspaper with issues Simon Says Simon Salloom Send comments to [email protected] Market blues persist for buyers, sellers

THE LOCAL REAL ESTATE MARKET IS buyers. Not having the means (which is ask. The banks in particular need to get challenging, there are no two ways about it. rarely the case), and more importantly a their business straight. Interest rates, lend- It’s not as bad as many parts of the country lack of courage, is what is holding many THE FORCES THAT ARE ing guidelines and solvent institutions and it can’t last like this forever. buyers back. It’s a tough market for real change daily. A realtor friend of mine has had a prop- estate agents because it means we work PUTTING THE MARKET IN This means that a buyer can be in erty fall out of escrow three times and is much harder to close a deal, whether we escrow and find out a few days before clos- now in escrow for the fourth time, this is are representing buyers or sellers. IT’S CURRENT UNPLEAS- ing that the loan they thought they were after numerous offers and a lot of interest. I have as many serious buyers as I have getting no longer exists. This can be for a The fact that properties keep going into ever had. These people are taking advan- ANT STATE ARE A COMBI- number of reasons. For example, it can be escrow, coupled with the large number of tage of what has become a buyer’s market. because the banks have changed their prospective buyers, but not always staying This puts them in an opportune position NATION OF THE GENERAL guidelines or, sometimes, even that they in escrow, is keeping us agents very busy. to really have control over the escrow are out of business altogether. I have a listing where I’ve had a lot of process. It also puts them in a place to take ECONOMY AND HOW DIF- Buyers like to ask, and understandably showings and about 20 to 30 people dur- advantage of price levels we haven’t seen so, what will the market be like in about a ing every open house. We’ve had two for a long while. FICULT IT IS TO GET A year. My answer is that it could be down a offers, one of which resulted in an escrow. For buyer’s right now, the main prob- little bit more, it could be the same or per- The day after my sellers accepted the offer, lem is that less people want to sell. There MORTGAGE. THESE CON- haps maybe even up a little bit, I don’t the buyers backed out. are actually less listings, in particular less know. The forces that are putting the mar- The property is west of Lincoln quality listings than there were in the red DITIONS WILL IMPROVE. ket in it’s current unpleasant state are a Boulevard, right off Montana Avenue — a hot market of a couple of years ago. combination of the general economy and choice location. And, it is priced below If you have your life together, live in a how difficult it is to get a mortgage. everything else on the market with a good location and preside over a quality atmosphere like this in the past have told These conditions will improve. I expect Zillow estimate of about 150k more than property and don’t absolutely have to sell, me that now is, a good time to buy. There that, like everything, what seems like it what we are asking. So much for Zillow. you are likely waiting until everything gets are many properties for sale that after the will last forever will change. We will look What this all means is that it is very dif- in order before putting your place on the tax savings cost about the same to own vs. back in a year or two at this article and ficult to actually close a deal right now. By market. With the general affluence of the rent. Rents generally go up every year think how glad we are that things are back virtue of the large number of prospective Westside, this means a lot less listings while mortgage payments stay constant. to “normal.” buyers, offers and escrows (although they compared with the lower end neighbor- There will be a bottom, just like there was aren’t actually closing as often as they nor- hoods. a top to the market. However, no one will SIMON SALLOOM is a Santa Monica based real- mally would), this market can’t last forev- It is these types of things that define a know when that has happened until tor with Coldwell Banker, his Web site is er. “buyer’s market.”The wise real estate busi- months after the fact. WestsideSimon.com. Please check out his blog There is simply too much interest from ness people who have seen a real estate What needs to get in order you might to comment on and discuss this article. 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