Allen David Heskin After the Battle is Won, Political Contradictions in Santa Monica, UCLA Lecture and unpublished ms. Fall, 1983. 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1977, 1970s
"SMRR was organized after an unsuccesssful rent control campaign in 1977. It was structured for electoral purposes, bringing together the electoral resources then available in the city. It functions in the city much like a political party, but, since local elections are non-partisan, it is not a party which has registered members. The initial coalition of groups that formed the SMRR membership were the Santa Monica Fair Housing Alliance (SMFHA), largely made up of those who were unsuccessful in the 1977 try; the Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED), which had stayed out of the 1977 effort, but brought much of the technology to the successsful campaigns; and the local Democratic club."