MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2004
Volume 3, Issue 46
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Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD by Chuck Shepard
According to an October Boston Globe profile, New Bedford, Mass., city council candidate Raimundo Delgado is a charismatic politician despite his freely disclosed bipolar disorder, which has resulted twice in his involuntary hospitalization during the campaign. Among his proposals: to create a "city underwater"; to "free the dogs, the sheep, the goats"; to grow a tropical forest in place of local Route 18; and to give $10,000 raises to numerous city employees that he has met. He lost the council election and an earlier mayoral election, though he did outpoll an opponent with schizophrenia.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I'm still an atheist, thank God.” – Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)
INDEX Horoscopes Sag, do your thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Local Drug czar hits Los Angeles . . . . . . .3
Opinion A message to the homeless . . . . . .4
People Lou Rawls marries . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Suspect in murder investigation charged with unrelated felony
City employees Jesse Ruano and Jose Oronoz collect discarded Christmas trees from Reed Park on Saturday. Residents are asked to dump their trees at one of four local parks by Jan. 11.
Nancy Greenstein: Behind the ruling SM political party Community profiles is a weekly series that appears each Monday and delves into the people who live, work and play in Santa Monica.
The main suspect in Santa Monica’s only homicide is scheduled to make a plea today on an unrelated felony charge. If convicted, Arthur Archuletta will likely spend significant time in prison, officials said. Archuletta, 21, of Santa Monica, was charged late last month by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge, a violation of Archuletta’s parole, stems from his Nov. 22 arrest. During a traffic stop at 23rd Street and Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica Police officers found a firearm in the car in which Archuletta was riding. A recent crime-lab analysis confirmed that Archuletta had knowledge of the gun, which is a violation of his parole, said
BY LEE RAJSICH Special to the Daily Press
BY JOHN WOOD Daily Press Staff Writer
Nancy Greenstein likes going to government meetings. For 14 years, she served as the co-chair of Santa Monicans for Renters Rights, long City Hall’s ruling party. Greenstein, who acts as SMRR’s co-chair emeritus, also sits on the Santa Monica College board of trustees and works with nity services for UCLA the local American Civil police, Greenstein overLiberties Union, among sees grants, community other groups. policing programs, public “All nonprofits. I have education and a studentnever worked for a for-prof- led ambulance program. it,” she said in an interview But it’s for her involvelast week at the University ment in Santa Monica — of California-Los Angeles not Los Angeles — that police department building Greenstein, 55, is best where she works. As director of commu- See PROFILES, page 5
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“The analysis found his DNA on the weapon.” – LT. FRANK FABREGA Santa Monica Police Department
SMPD Lt. Frank Fabrega. “The analysis found his DNA on the weapon,” Fabrega said. “He was holding it and had knowledge of the weapon and was in possession of it.” However, the gun is not linked to the Sept. 2 murder of 19-year-old Jalonnie Carter, which Archuletta was arrested for three days later. Carter, whom Archuletta knew, was gunned down in an alley east of 20th Street. Archuletta has not been See FELONY, page 6
New Republican club plans to shake up school’s politics A recently established conservative club at Santa Monica College accuses the school of asserting a liberal bias, and the young Republicans plan to fight it. At the outset of the fall 2003 semester, seven students with a common political ideology formed the Santa Monica College Republicans Club in response to feelings that leftist faculty and unchallenged leftist clubs have created an oppressive liberal bias on the 74-yearold campus. “It is a well-known fact that at least 90 percent of the faculty at this campus is registered in either the Democratic or Green parties,” said club president Chris Haas. According to a press release issued by the club,
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several faculty members have encouraged liberalism in their classrooms while oppressing conservative viewpoints — from
paralleling President Bush to fascist dictator Adolf Hitler and docking students’ grades for moderate See CLUB, page 6
Photo courtesy of Chris Haas
Christina Bjornstrom, a member of SMC Republicans, receives a donation for the Red Cross at the clock tower on the college’s campus. In November, the SMC Republicans sponsored a fundraiser for the victims of the California wildfires.
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