Finally our long and tedious nightmare is over. City
Administrator Jay Baksa is leaving, having recently announced his
retirement.
City Administrator Baksa is an Overrated City Official With a Sweet Pension
Dear Editor,
Finally our long and tedious nightmare is over. City Administrator Jay Baksa is leaving, having recently announced his retirement. Thankfully, his time is over. Isn’t it funny that every time a fiscal conservative leaves office it always is after a scandal?
Yes, Mr. Baksa did good with Sewergate when he first took office, but a budget wizard guru, hardly.
And now what kind of gigantic retirement package will the taxpayers put out for his departure? Plenty, that’s what.
What started out as a bang in the beginning ended with a thud. Mr. Baksa, sorry that sitting on your couch with your feet up is the last image we will have of you. Goodbye and good riddance.
What an overrated city official. And in the 24 years in office Mr. Baksa, what did you do for the poor or the homeless? Zero buddy, that’s what you did for them.
When former Mayor Tom Springer left it was the same, and Don Gage, too. All, big disappointments.
These soft, lazy politicians are all the same – everything for the rich and everybody else gets the shaft.
Jay Baksa is a nice guy if you’re rich or important or conservative, but a hero? That’s left for our boys in Iraq. They are doing the real work while guys like Jay Baksa get all the glory.
Daniel Garcia, Gilroy
Bill Would Subject Animals to Unnecessary Surgeries, Higher Risk of Cancer
Dear Editor,
Dr. Keesling’s article is excellent and he hits AB1634 squarely on its misguided head. It is bad legislation, poorly thought out and will be devastating to California should it pass. Thousands of individuals across the state are outraged, as evidenced by an almost three-foot high stack of letters received in opposition to AB1634, displayed by Assemblyman LaMalfa in last week’s appropriations hearing in Sacramento.
Once law, AB1634 will force Californians to subject their animals to a major surgery, at their own expense, regardless of whether that animal ever leaves its owner’s house, yard, car or leash.
As sterilization has been shown to be associated with a higher incidence of everything from bone cancer, urinary incontinence, diabetes to ligament injuries, this is a decision that pet owners should be making with their veterinarians, not by government mandate.
If AB1634 becomes law, those who devote their lives and energies to producing healthy pets: those that are well-socialized, temperamentally sound and screened for health defects, will be gone.
Many will be TAXED out of existence with unspecified fees, while others have no chance of meeting the impossible requirements set up under AB1634. To find out more about AB1634 and what it will mean to the pet owners of California, go to www.PetPAC.net.
Lesley Brabyn, Mill Valley, CA
