This article from the corporate media was interesting when I read it in the paper a couple days ago, but it certainly isn't worthy of the journalistic standards of Indy-Media. I suggest that who ever posted it become the media and write their own article about the candidates, based on investigations that are independent of rags like the Senial.

As for the candidates this article endorses, they are liars and abusers of the peopl, just as the Sentinel is. After years of mismanagement Santa Cruz is one the most unaffordable places in the nation. Cops and landlords run roughshod over the people treating us like dirt. Now those responsible want you to think they did something for you and they want you to vote them back in.

I say we need a regime change in Santa Cruz!

Three City Council seats are open in the November 5th elections, but Argue and Leavitt are the only candidates truly challenging the status quo. Rotkin, Matthews, and Fitzmaurice are all establishment candidates and local political insiders. Rotkin and Matthews were both proponents of the failed Beach Area Working Plan. Matthews has even voted against the right of Free Radio Santa Cruz to be on the air. All three have voted to keep sleep illegal for the homeless and have never intervened to stop police harassment of political activists, the poor, and street musicians. Rotkin, Matthews, and Fitzmaurice are only progressive when it comes to national issues over which they have no control. Steve Argue & Thomas Leavitt are the only candidates who represent a truly progressive local agenda which includes expanding low income housing, freedom of speech, human rights for the homeless, curbing police abuses, and the preservation of our environment. A vote for Steve Argue and Thomas Leavitt is truly a vote for change.

THOMAS LEAVITT can be contacted at (831) 425-3646. His web site is www.thomasleavitt.org/cc. E-mail him at Thomas (at) thomasleavitt.org.

STEVE ARGUE can be contacted at (831) 454-0272. E-mail him at steveorchid (at) yahoo.com.