DEAR EDITOR:
With all due respect, let me suggest that Mark Zappa needs to
get a life.
DEAR EDITOR:
With all due respect, let me suggest that Mark Zappa needs to get a life.
I mean, I don’t. have the time to write such artfully composed, nasty, spiteful and self-important letters every day, or every week. Some of us have to make a living.
But that’s water under the bridge. Zappa has now given us his list of who HE will endorse, and, as they say in beautiful Hawaii “talked stink” about the people he doesn’t like. And our own Dispatch has seen fit to publish this rant – ALL 755 words of it. I thought the limit was 500 words or less. I assume therefore, that every one now has the right to write you a letter of precisely the same length and expect you to publish it. Or do you only like certain kinds of letters. Let’s be fair.
So here goes, from a Gilroyan resident who represents the exact and same constituency as Zappa, myself. I want to invite my friends and any Gilroyan out there to do the same. The limit seems to be 755 words.
Russ Valiquette? Just doesn’t seem to have what it takes. He sits there on the planning commission without idea ONE in his head, unless his puppetmaster Springer puts something there. The ollected remarks coming from him couldn’t put a book together. Forget it.
Dion Bracco? What has he done in town? Just a personal friend of Zappa. I know running a business is work, he seems to be a nice man, but hasn’t given me any reason to think he knows anything about the city of Gilroy.
Now, I would like to write about the people I like.
Peter Arellano. A local boy made good. The child of farm workers, a man who has given his life to help others, and the ONLY independent voice on the city council. A socialist? Please – why doesn’t Zappa take another 755 words to explain to this man, doctor, son, brother what you mean.
Paul Correa. Here, I am speaking also from a mothers point of view. Paul is the American Dream, just like Dr. Arellano is. But Paul hits close to home – a son of a grocery clerk, a kid from Gilroy who gets himself into Harvard and Berkeley to study, OF ALL THINGS, city planning. WHY WOULDN’T we want to use that kind of expertise for the benefit of our town? He also seems to be one of the few on the planning commission who actually read all the documents.
I am also voting for Bruce Morasca. He is a decent, kind and a quiet kind of guy. He is a Sunday school teacher, 4-H leader, and a solid citizen. He represents me, a voice from the working people who want to do good for Gilroy and has the courage to go fight for it. He will be an individual of good morals and will consider issues that will protect the hard working, common man, whether they have a union job or not.
And finally, Guadalupe Arellano for mayor. She is feisty, spirited, independent and not afraid to speak her mind. She surely is not beholden to the same-in-crowd that have been running for city hall. I liked her record on the City Council and besides, it’s truly a pity that Gilroy politics has become a boys club.
So that”s my list in around 600 words. I expect my good friends at The Dispatch to print it, give it equal space, word for word, who, like Mr. Zappa, (especially) and myself, like to see their names in print.
Connie Gallegos, Gilroy
Submitted Friday, Sept. 19 to ed****@************ch.com
