THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2006
Visit us online at smdp.com
Volume 5 Issue 305
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
The hits keep on coming
DAILY LOTTERY 5 34 40 45 46 Meganumber: 21 Jackpot: $42M 9 10 19 25 43 Meganumber: 12 Jackpot: $11M 7 12 14 30 31 MIDDAY: 5 9 4 EVENING: 6 8 4 1st: 03 Hot Shot 2nd: 05 California Classic 3rd: 11 Money Bags RACE TIME: 1.40.03
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 at http://www.calottery.com
Daily Press Staff Writer
SMC — It was a defining moment in the struggle for civil rights. Following the 200-meter race in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, wearing a gold medal around his neck, sprinter Tommie Smith lowered his head during the national anthem and raised his leather-covered fist into the air, symbolizing black power. Ten years later, Smith — the only man to hold 11 world records simultaneously — became the track and field coach at Santa Monica College, where he remained until his retirement in 2005. He is one of three world-class athletes who will be feted by the school on Saturday for a lifetime’s worth of achievement, not only in sports, but SMC sports. Smith, female rock climber and
CITY HALL — In the latest twist to the Kevin McKeown saga, the forces behind a high-profile effort to bounce the city councilman from office are charging that his supporters spent money illegally to derail their efforts. Members of Santa Monicans for Sensible Priorities (SMSP) are calling on the City Clerk and the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission to investigate whether or not a new group — Santa Monicans for Open Democracy — violated campaign finance laws by staging a rally on the incumbent’s behalf. SMSP filed its requests Tuesday, charging John Petz, the founder of Open Democracy, with failing to file campaign disclosure statements and for coordinating last Sunday’s rally with other independent expenditure committees and the McKeown camp. Under local election law, any organization which spends more than $1,000 on a candidate or ballot measure must report those expenditures with the City Clerk. Under state law, independent expenditure committees are not allowed to coordinate their activities with candidates whom they support. “This organization is clearly an independent expenditure committee supporting the campaign of Council member Kevin McKeown with signs, e-mail campaigns, telephone efforts and expenditures on his behalf,” said Bob Hattoy, a spokesman for SMSP. “To the best of our knowledge, they have failed to file the required expenditure reports.” In addition to the rally, SMSP claims there are e-mails that the group has sent out asking its members to support McKeown with e-mail, phone and other campaign efforts. SMSP is also asking for authorities to investigate any connection between Open Democracy and Santa Monicans for Renters Rights
See HALL OF FAME, page 12
See CAMPAIGN EFFORTS, page 11
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
■ The latest version of China’s periodic Animal Olympic Games, with 300 hardly voluntary participants, was held at the Shanghai Wildlife Park in September, to the consternation of animal-rights activists around the world. London’s Daily Mail reported that chimpanzees played basketball and lifted weights, a bear in a tutu navigated an obstacle course, sea lions high-jumped, and an elephant took on spectators in tug-ofwar. Photographs of a kangaroo boxing a garishly-dressed man were posted on the Web sites of China Daily and CBS News. ■ Injudicious: In August, Lowell, Mass., judge James McGuinness Jr. quixotically relieved Ms. Grimary DeJesus of all responsibility for failure to pay earlier court fees (which followed four arrests in eight years), provided that she recite the Pledge of Allegiance. She was only 12 words into it before she faltered, but McGuinness said, “Congratulations, ma’am, never heard it said better,” and released her anyway.
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 306th day of 2006. There are 59 days left in the year. Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden flying boat, the Hughes H-4 Hercules (popularly known as the “Spruce Goose”), on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California. North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.
1947
Fabian Lewkowicz fabianl@smdp.com Bartender Rafael Lizarde, 57, places a photo of his late boss, Theadora Lonsway, onto the Day of the Dead altar at Lula Cocina Mexicana on Wednesday. Lonsway, the former owner of the Main Street eatery, passed away three years ago. Lonsway called the bar “Fafis Tequila Cantina” after Lizarde.
Art of political endorsements BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer
BY MELODY HANATANI
18-19 20-23
See ENDORSEMENTS, page 12
QUOTE OF THE DAY “The amount of sleep required by the average person is just five minutes more.”
ANONYMOUS
INDEX Horoscopes Wish upon a star, Aries
2
Inside Scoop Is medical Mary J OK?
3
State Man connected to wildfires
6
Surf Report Water temperature: 65°
16
MOVIETIMES Feel the reels
17
Comics & Stuff Classifieds Ads with class
Second to none
ELECTION2006
CITYWIDE — Jonathan Mann is the perennial City Council candidate. The 61-year-old flight attendant and substitute teacher is running for the eighth consecutive time, hoping once again that voters will embrace his ideas to implement free Internet throughout Santa Monica and a City Hall blog to allow the public to give its two cents and keep a check and balance on local government. Not only is Mann running in his eighth straight council election, he is once again running without money or endorsements, making a winning campaign all the more difficult. “The way you get elected in this city, and many other cities, is you have to have the endorsement of special interest,” he said. “The machine politics is SMRR (Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights) and the Santa Monica Police Department.”
1889
Laughs galore
Worked night and Day
Izzy says,
“If you think our sandwiches are too large, bring a friend.”
Daily Press Staff Writer
Fabian Lewkowicz fabianl@smdp.com
SOLID GOLD: Former Santa Monica College track and field coach Tommie Smith will be inducted into the school’s sports Hall of Fame on Saturday.
We’re in Culver City too!
GABY SCHKUD (310) 586-0308
10862 Washington Blvd.
OPEN 24 HOURS 1433 Wilshire Blvd at 15th St.
(310) 394-1131
Lessons • Studio rent Music • Instrument Repair
(310) 202-6874
The name you can depend on!