PUBLIC FORUM DROP YOUR EGOS.The recall and removal of Gray Davis seems inevitable to me, but it has also become abundantly clear that Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] could possibly lose the election to Cruz Bustamante unless Tom McClintock Thomas Miller "Tom" McClintock (born July 10, 1956 in White Plains, New York) is a California State Senator. He ran for Governor of California in the 2003 California recall election of Gray Davis and finished third out of 135 candidates with 13.5% of the overall vote. and Peter Ueberroth Peter Victor Ueberroth (born September 2, 1937 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American executive. He served as the 6th commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1984 to 1989, and is currently head of the United States Olympic Committee. come to their senses and drop out of the race. McClintock and Ueberroth have no chance to win the election, and at this point all they will succeed in doing is draining votes away from the best man for the job, Schwarzenegger. Gentlemen, please drop your egos until after the recall election and support the Republican front-runner. That should help Arnold Schwarzenegger become governor and thereby give the citizens of California our best chance to return the state to fiscal solvency. - Daran Rosenberg Palmdale What a difference Three months ago the conservative Republicans were shrieking epithets left and right at those damn liberal Democrat Liberal Democrat Noun a member or supporter of the Liberal Democrats, a British centrist political party that advocates proportional representation Liberal Democrat n (BRIT) → actors who had the audacity au·dac·i·ty n. pl. au·dac·i·ties 1. Fearless daring; intrepidity. 2. Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention. 3. to utter derogatory de·rog·a·to·ry adj. 1. Disparaging; belittling: a derogatory comment. 2. Tending to detract or diminish. comments and opinions about George W. Bush and the administration when everyone knew that they, the thespians, were just ignoramuses with no knowledge of politics, the war, the economy or anything else, for that matter, and who were just using their celebrity factor in an attempt to get back at Georgie for winning (?) the election. Now, however, who is their front-running candidate in the recall election? A third-rate action movie star with the intelligence of a steroid who has an ever-changing memory and no opinions at all. If it weren't so incredibly tragic, it would be hilariously funny. - Parker Young North Hollywood Kids are not forgotten Re ``Forget the kids'' (Editorial, Sept. 7): Your statement that ``of course, teachers and others deserve decent salaries, but they also must be willing to share in the pain during tough economic times'' is short on memory. In the early 1990s, teachers took a pay cut because the district was in difficult economic straits, as a result of tough economic times, on the promise that, when times got better, they would be the first to have their pay restored. That promise was broken, and the Daily News did not take note. Evidence exists on the record that teachers do not forget the kids. They face them every day. - Glenn Shockley Winnetka Prop. 13 still needed Re ``Back-stabbing Prop. 13'' (Editorial, Sept. 2): This is an issue that hits senior citizens particularly hard - and there are many who would be out of their homes if it weren't for Proposition 13. Many senior citizens don't have a job to help pay higher taxes. Many are on fixed incomes. I, for one, don't own a car and don't use air-conditioning in summer or heat in winter in order to have money to eat and to pay bills. So, how would I be able to afford higher taxes? How many in the state government would be willing to forgo their perks perk 1 v. perked, perk·ing, perks v.intr. 1. To stick up or jut out: dogs' ears that perk. 2. To carry oneself in a lively and jaunty manner. and pensions in order to help balance the budget? Proposition 13 offered taxpayers the help they needed to keep their homes, and we need its original protection to make sure that we don't wind up on the street. - Barbara Charis North Hollywood Van Nuys Council The Sept. 3 Daily News editorial began, ``Peace has at long last come to the Van Nuys Neighborhood Advisory Council - the peace of utter inactivity.'' If the past is a prologue to the future, we have never enjoyed such a ``peace'' and never will. I, personally, do not want peace and never expected peace. I want the continuous development of the neighborhood councils Neighborhood councils are governmental or non-governmental bodies composed of local people who handle neighborhood problems. They can be found in many cities throughout the world. and realize that it will not be easy. The VNNC experience parallels the experiences of all of the neighborhood councils of the city of Los Angeles
in·op·er·a·ble adj. Unsuitable for a surgical procedure. . All of the VNNC meetings held since the election, with two exceptions, have been convoked and organized by the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment staff. The DONE staff chose the persons who chaired our meetings. The DONE staff wrote the agendas and restricted those agendas to resolving the election challenges and installing the board of directors. In the past seven months, Greg Nelson and the DONE staff have received many communications, queries, requests and suggestions but have ignored most of them. Our last meeting was held only after several stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. repeatedly and personally contacted and secured promises to attend from 11 or 12 of those due for installation as board members. The DONE staff members were apparently too few and too busy to achieve this. We are doing our best to learn the ways of our city's government and earn its respect. We are and will remain active participants in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. city government, but it can get frustrating frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: at times. - Daniel Wiseman VNNC stakeholder stakeholder n. a person having in his/her possession (holding) money or property in which he/she has no interest, right or title, awaiting the outcome of a dispute between two or more claimants to the money or property. Nelson responds The Sept. 3 Daily News editorial complained that the Van Nuys Neighborhood Council hasn't been meeting and that there is no schedule of meetings to come. If a Daily News representative had attended the Van Nuys Neighborhood Council's meeting on Aug. 28, that person would have known about the progress that is being made and could have reported the good news to the newspaper's readers. After a tireless effort to find a meeting time that worked for the board members, which isn't easy to do during August, the council met, but it didn't have a quorum because one of its members was involved in a traffic accident. Nevertheless, the council talked informally for 90 minutes about its plans, including when the next meetings will be held. The board members were installed. Councilman Tony Cardenas' office will start working with the neighborhood council in project-planning for the 101 Corridor, and one of the board members explained how the council will be getting involved in helping the mayor shape the new city budget. The Van Nuys Neighborhood Council is making remarkable progress, and it deserves better treatment from the Daily News. Please find the good and praise it. - Greg Nelson General Manager Department of Neighborhood Empowerment Bungling bun·gle v. bun·gled, bun·gling, bun·gles v.intr. To work or act ineptly or inefficiently. v.tr. To handle badly; botch. See Synonyms at botch. n. in Van Nuys A recent Daily News editorial, ``Democracy inaction'' (Sept. 3), pointed out the benign outcome of the Van Nuys Neighborhood Council: ``Surely such pointless symbolism is not what Los Angeles residents had in mind when they voted to create the councils in 1999.'' Residents wanted community inclusion. In Van Nuys we have had everything except that. One example is the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment's refusal to accept that the neighborhood councils need to be accessible to people with disabilities. That leaves out 20 percent of the population right there. Throw in targeted - exclusive - outreach, a botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. election and dictatorial ``management'' by the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, and you have the makings of another bureaucracy bungle. Silly me for believing in ``by the people.'' - Kurt Baldwin Van Nuys Disappearing jobs Wake up, America. Regardless of what George W. Bush says - ``I'm not going to be satisfied until every American who's looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a job can find a job'' - our jobs will stop disappearing when we stop buying products made in foreign countries carrying an American label and sponsored by rich - and getting richer - American athletes. Wake up. Take a pencil and paper pencil and paper - An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved "write-once" update devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse and walk around your house listing every single item in it - and make note of the country of origin. See what is made in the USA and what is not. If that doesn't wake you up to reality and you keep on buying blindly, then you deserve what's coming. - Dante F. Rochetti West Hills Bases of laws Re ``Went too far'' (Your Opinions, Aug. 29): The First Amendment of our Constitution says: ``Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.'' America was founded on God's laws. I believe our judicial laws are based on the Ten Commandments Ten Commandments or Decalogue [Gr.,=ten words], in the Bible, the summary of divine law given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai. They have a paramount place in the ethical system in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. . Congress should take action and help Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore For the baseball player, see . Roy Moore is a controversial American jurist and politician noted for his refusal, as the elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the courthouse despite orders from a federal court . He is not out of line, but one of our three branches of government seems to be. - Eileen Guthrie Arleta The last war It's bigger than all the wars in the history of mankind. It's the war between secular groups - those that do not believe in God - and religious groups that do. This war has become critical, because we now have the technology to destroy the world. To name the groups or the weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or is not necessary. Who wins is not important, but this war will destroy the world by the end of this century. - Chet Harner Hollywood |
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