WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2005
Volume 4, Issue 241
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
DAILY LOTTERY
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Preliminary election results show a resounding defeat for Schwarzenegger
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
As traditionally domineering husbands reach retirement age in Japan, the wives of as many as half of them may suffer some degree of Retired Husband Syndrome (rashes, ulcers, other stress symptoms), according to an October Washington Post dispatch. Said one morose, 63-year-old woman, “I had developed my own life, my own way of doing things, in the years when he was (working long hours),” but, she told the Post, she now can’t stand even to look at her husband across the dinner table and sits at an angle so she can stare out a window instead. According to psychiatrists treating RHS, the numbers may soon explode further unless husbands lower their expectations of spousal servitude.
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 313th day of 2005. There are 52 days left in the year. Forty years ago, on Nov. 9, 1965, the great Northeast blackout occurred as a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours left 30 million people in seven states and two Canadian provinces without electricity.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “I think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people.”
RICHARD AVEDON
AMERICAN FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER
INDEX Horoscopes Find your pals, Capricorn
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Surf Report Water temperature: 64°
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Opinion The death of truth
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Entertainment ‘Get Rich’ is no ‘8 Mile’
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Real Estate The popularity of McMansions
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National Weed in the workplace
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Comics Strips tease
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
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Santa Monicans opposed to several ballot measures in Tuesday’s special election took to the streets and to the polls in an effort to defeat Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempt at state reform. Apparently it worked. A group of Westside Democrats, teacher union advocates and other community leaders were cautiously optimistic with Tuesday’s initial election results, which showed all eight measures defeated, with nearly 70 percent of precincts reporting. Harry Keiley, president of Santa Monica-Malibu Classroom Teacher’s Association, watched the results trickle in at the Westside Democrats’ Santa Monica headquarters at 1508 18th St. before heading to downtown Los Angeles for a victory party. Keiley’s group specifically opposed Propositions 74-76, which they argued would undermine public education throughout the state and put power in the hands of the wrong people, namely special interest groups funded by corporations.
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Santa Monicans cast their votes in the special election on Tuesday at City Hall.
“At this hour, we’re very optimistic we’ll be successful at the end of the day,” he said. “It is a ‘no’ across the board. “The voters didn’t want this election,” Keiley added. “(Gov. Schwarzenegger) picked this
to help them wage their campaign against the special election. The fruits of their efforts hadn’t been completely solidified late Tuesday night but they
fight and the teachers, the nurses and the firefighters ended the fight.” The teachers’ association a few months ago offered its office space in Santa Monica to the Westside Democrats in an effort
See SPECIAL ELECTION, page 5
LAPD joins the Venice gang coalition BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
VERA DAVIS CENTER — Los Angeles law enforcement officers have agreed to partner up with social service groups committed to overcoming gang violence in their communities. Members of the Venice Gang Coalition (VGC) on Tuesday began developing strategies to tackle the long-term problems of ignorance, unemployment and hopelessness believed to be associated with the gang lifestyle while welcoming their newest partner in combatting the problems, the Los Angeles Police Department. “We need to be part of the gang coalition,” said Capt. Bill
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“We need to be part of the gang coalition.” CAPT. BILL WILLIAMS LAPD’s Pacific Division
Williams with the LAPD’s Pacific Division. “All of the agencies here have a part to play, including us, because what do you do once the guy gets out of jail to make sure he stays out of jail?” Capt. Williams said that while he believes there are individuals in society who would pursue a criminal life regardless of opportunities
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made available to them, he also believes there are those who may overcome a criminal life through better guidance, support and alternatives. In the case of the latter, he said the LAPD could become more effective at identifying those individuals so the VGC members could intervene. Capt. Williams promised the VGC that he and other higher-ups within the LAPD would continue to participate in the group’s endeavors. At the same time, other police representatives pointed out that although the situations that foster gang life could greatly improve, criminal activity in the Venice See GANG COALITION, page 6
Homeless booked for nonexistent crimes By The Associated Press
VENTURA — Homeless people are being arrested for crimes that don’t exist as part of the city’s effort to get them off the streets, the county public defender’s office said in motions seeking dismissal of the cases. At least nine homeless people were jailed at least two nights for alleged illegal camping or storing belongings in public, violations that should have resulted in tickets and fines rather than arrest and jail, Deputy Public See HOMELESS, page 7
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