DEAR EDITOR:
A response to:
Letter published the day before the election by:
1) Saul Gonzalez
– when you throw out innuendoes/assumptions, support them with
facts. You imply I’m
”
feeding Craig Gartman ideas
”
– When?
DEAR EDITOR:
A response to:
Letter published the day before the election by:
1) Saul Gonzalez – when you throw out innuendoes/assumptions, support them with facts. You imply I’m “feeding Craig Gartman ideas” – When? Where? How? What ideas? You claim I’m “a very negative and bitter man” and you’re “sad for his family.” How’d you reach these conclusions? You’ve never met nor communicated with my family or me? Was I judged because I disagree with your limited views? You vote for union drones because I oppose them? Are you so easily manipulated by others? Consider this, Saul: unless you provide specifics to support your mudslinging, you only sound as ignorant as you seem to be.
2) Roger Rivera – You won’t stop the shuck-and-jive [Shuck – “… something of little value…; Jive -… glib, deceptive or foolish talk ..”], will you? To say “Gilroy First! … was formed by individual Gilroy residents”, to rhetorically ask “Did the union support them?” and then reply “Sure, we like the idea of 1,000 new registered voters” is pure hypocrisy. Your effort, in assembling, coordinating and funding this group of community whiners, created divisiveness throughout the community that will take years to undo. Stop trying to whitewash union involvement to buy control of Gilroy City Council. Your letter, oozing with the manipulative syrup of double talk and dissembling, doesn’t belong in Gilroy.
3) Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins – As Executive Officer of South Bay AFL-CIO, your myopic view that “Gilroy is evolving, and working families are stepping up to help guide how that evolution takes place” closed out another self-serving, union-illusion viewpoint which ignores reality. From your group’s endorsement of those drones willing to parrot the union line, Gilroy has been showered with this flood of union-created mendacity. The election is over, the unions failed again to gain City Council control so why don’t you just go away – hit the road – take a hike – scram – and Gilroyans will determine their own future without your manipulations.
Comments after the election by:
1) Paul Correa – There is a quality the politically wise learn early: grace in victory or defeat. It’s not a Correa gift. Dispatch writer Eric Leins writes, paraphrasing Correa: “The city is taking one step forward and one step back by electing him and not re-electing Arellano.”
Ohhh, yes, it’s those terrible ignorant unknowing non-union-worshipping voters that thwart union efforts to buy City Council! They just didn’t swallow the union’s con job.
The result: Correa’s third place victory replaces a moderate union drone with a union zealot – and that’ll work against Gilroy for four years.
2) Dennis Taylor – the violins mournfully wept to Dennis’: “It’s hard to imagine anyone other than the handful of right-wingers in this town not caring about the welfare of Gilroy residents subjected to the kind of labor practices (Pam) Robasciotti described.”
That anti-Wal-Mart whine, parroting union nonsense, just happened to be written in the last days of the campaign, Dennis.
Might I suggest blatant union manipulation?
Congratulations to Mayor-elect Al Pinhiero and Councilmember-elect Roland Velasco and Russ Valiquette on your victories. You’re Gilroy’s gain to City Council.
Final word: Mr. Editor, give writer Eric Leins a hefty pay raise. His election coverage, start to finish, has been to the highest journalistic standards. He did your paper proud. To those who designed and laid out the stories – well done!
James Brescoll, Gilroy
Submitted Friday, Nov. 7
