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Windcrest residents want to vote Editor: What a great national voter turnout! Everyone called for getting out the vote … except in our little town of Windcrest. Even the mayor has long encouraged folks to get out and vote, except when it comes to spending tax money for his new City Hall (and other things). In several recent published comments, Mayor Jack Leonhardt blames Windcrest residents for the added costs of the projects. Well, mayor, you and the City Council are the cause of the delays and added costs for the projects. You also know that almost as many residents that voted in the last city election have said “give us a right to vote” before you spend our tax money. Duh! What is so hard to understand about that? Stop this madness and let our residents vote on these issues. Sil Crim Windcrest resident Smoke and mirrors block vote Editor: The ship has struck the rocks, the bilge pumps are not keeping up with the incoming sea, and the captain has just ordered the bridge to be remodeled. I don’t understand. At a time when even the local dry cleaners has left because of lack of business, our mayor says that all we need is a new $5.6 million City Hall. The administration of our community is using every circuitous financial vehicle they can imagine to go avoid putting this issue to a vote of the residents. Wasn’t that what “Home Rule” was supposed to do? Weren’t we, the resident taxpayers, supposed to now have a say in our affairs? Regardless of the smoke and mirrors of financial gymnastics, in accordance with my real math figures, the $5.6 million puts a tax burden on each and every home in our community amounting to nearly $3,000. This is real money that must be paid by us and our children, or the future purchasers of our homes. More than 1,000 of our residents petitioned to just have this issue put to a vote. If I am not mistaken, that is what you do in a democracy. Telling someone who cares enough to devote their time and resources to a civic cause to “like it or lump it” is the kind of narrow mindedness that went out of style with the ’50s. Happiness and contentment begins with an attitude based on reality. Greg Surfas Windcrest resident Election judges deserve kudos Editor: Kudos to the voting judges and crew at Universal City Hall for their professional attitude and services this election. While television reporters across the nation was announcing long hours and lines at polling places, the Universal City Crew welcomed and processed voters without delay. I would list their names but you know these dedicated officials as your neighbor volunteers. Larry Kerkow Former Universal City mayor Windcrest residents wonder …. Editor: We, the people of Windcrest, want the right to vote. We: • wonder why the City Council is going to such great lengths to keep us from having the right to vote. • wonder why residents are now paying legal fees so we can have the right to vote. •·wonder why the council is using our money (taxes) to deny us our right to vote. • wonder why the council is using retired FBI agents to intimidate those of us who signed the petition that demanded our right to vote (cost to the city, $4,600). •·wonder why the council won’t just call for an election and give us our right to vote. • wonder why we needed to start a petition (two times) calling for an election so we could have our right to vote. • wonder how much the council has already paid to stop our right to vote. • wonder how much they are spending on legal fees using our money (taxes) denying us the right to vote. • wonder how to stop this horrible waste of our money used to stop our right to vote. • wonder just how much the council is willing to spend to keep us from having the right to vote. If you have some of the same questions, why don’t you make a donation to our legal fund to help the “committee for the right to vote” get our right to vote! Pamela Dodson Windcrest resident |
