WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2006
Volume 5, Issue 123
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
Pier’s bubble bursts
DAILY LOTTERY SUPER LOTTO 14 19 26 36 40 Meganumber: 20 Jackpot: $43 million
FANTASY 5 1 7 14 23 37
DAILY 3 Daytime: Evening:
742 363
DAILY DERBY 1st: 2nd: 3rd:
12 Lucky Charms 03 Hot Shot 06 Whirl Win
RACE TIME:
1.47.63
BY KEVIN HERRERA
Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the winning number information, mistakes can occur. In the event of any discrepancies, California State laws and California Lottery regulations will prevail. Complete game information and prize claiming instructions are available at California Lottery retailers. Visit the California State Lottery web site: http://www.calottery.com
Daily Press Staff Writer
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
Questionable Policies: ■ The Wood Methodist Church was informed in March by the town council in Dudley, England, that it owed an “advertising fee” of the equivalent of about $130 to put up a cross. (Town regulations specify that a “cross” is an ad for Christianity.) ■ In March, Apache County, N.M., contracted to pay up to $100,000 to a former Arizona attorney general to investigate Apache’s sheriff, Brian Hounshell, who, after an exhaustive previous investigation (whose cost was not revealed), was accused of misspending $8,000 of taxpayer money.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Tim Dillenbeck, a.k.a. ‘The Bubbleman,’ refills his self-designed bubble machine. He uses about 10 gallons of bubble mix per day to entertain the beach crowds. Dillenbeck, who has been blowing bubbles on the Santa Monica Pier for the past 10 years, has now been ordered to stay away.
SM PIER — The bubble has burst for Tim Dillenbeck. A fixture here, Dillenbeck, better known as “The Bubbleman” for his bubbleblowing displays, has been banned from performing here, Ocean Front Walk and potentially every other public space in Santa Monica for at least two years. The ban is part of a stay-away order filed last month against Dillenbeck because he has “numerous pending cases” for leaving property unattended and camping in public, said Betty Haviland, chief deputy city attorSee BUBBLES, page 6
Today is the 95th day of 2006. There are 270 days left in the year One hundred and fifty years ago, on April 5, 1856, black American educator Booker T. Washington was born in Franklin County, Va. In 1614, American Indian princess Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “A man is only as good as what he loves.”
SAUL BELLOW
CANADIAN-BORN AMERICAN AUTHOR
INDEX Horoscopes Get some extra sleep, Leo
2
Snow & Surf Report Water temperature: 58°
3
Opinion True truth in advertising
4
Commentary Support the public beach club
5
Real Estate The dream is over
10
International Guantanamo’s secrets
14
Comics Laugh it up
16
Classifieds Ad space odyssey
The mixed impact of the illegals
State’s history a lesson for GOP
BY JEANNINE AVERSA AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON — They pick fruit and vegetables and clip hedges. They hang drywall and clean houses, hotels and office buildings. The millions of illegal workers in the United States have come under a fresh spotlight as Congress and President Bush grapple with revamping the nation’s immigration policies. Illegal workers’ relationship to the economy is intricate. They are willing to work for lower wages than legal workers, helping to keep down prices. But illegals also can depress wages for unskilled, legal workers and strain local hospitals and schools. “There is not a simple eco-
BY ERICA WERNER AND PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press Writers
know to what degree you have weakened the fabric.” There are an estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Some 7.2 million of them are employed — about 5 percent of the U.S.
LOS ANGELES — As Congress debates whether to rewrite immigration law, some Republicans recall a hard lesson learned here a dozen years ago — get-tough policies targeting illegal immigrants can cause lasting political damage. In California, the GOP’s struggles often are traced to a 1994 initiative to deny public services to illegal immigrants. A fierce backlash against Proposition 187 and its GOP
See ILLEGALS, page 9
See HISTORY, page 7
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Clusters of day laborers, hoping to earn cash from do-it-yourselfers, stake out territory along 11th Street.
nomic case here. It is complex. It is interwoven, and it is very hard to extract,” said Terry Connelly, dean of the Ageno School of Business at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. “It is like pulling some sort of piece of thread out of a fabric. If you pull that thread out, you don’t
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