EDITOR:
Jesse Ducker, writer for your friendly competition, The
Pinnacle, stated (Pinheiro looks forward- Nov. 7):
”
Correa credits his win to his aggressive precinct-walking
strategy.
”
EDITOR:
Jesse Ducker, writer for your friendly competition, The Pinnacle, stated (Pinheiro looks forward- Nov. 7): “Correa credits his win to his aggressive precinct-walking strategy.”
Dispatch writer Eric Leins (Election profile-Paul Corea- Oct. 15) wrote: “Paul Correa believes there should be a mix of civic planning know-how, land-use experience and a cultural understanding of Gilroy within City Council. But Correa says the entire mix can be found in a single candidate-him.”
Later, Mr. Leins (Absentee vote in, results final- Nov. 10) wrote: “Correa said it was the electorate’s desire for a politically diverse City Council, not the union support, that landed him a seat on the dais.”
You may con yourself and your union drone supporters with such a pathetic nonsense, Mr. Correa, but don’t run those illusions on Gilroy citizens. There is one reason why you reached third-place – no, there were 11,000-plus reasons – the $11,000-plus out-of-community unions gave you in their desperate effort to buy you a City Council seat.
What seemed to be a level playing field was corrupted by the unions’ cowardice (their last-minute infusion of mailer, signs, telephone banks and “volunteers” for your enrichment had costs not reported until after the election – depriving voters the knowledge you were bought and paid for.)
It wasn’t something new. Two years ago, there were two threats to the ‘level playing field.’ Then-Dispatch columnist Robert Dillon, realizing he held an unfair edge against his competition for a City Council seat, stepped down from the newspaper – and voters rewarded him with his council seat.
In that same election, your union “leaders” sent in a brochure late in the race that, fortunately, failed to buy you a council seat. You didn’t take the high road then – you allowed the unions to hold you to the low road of their mendacity. This year you’ve done even worse.
Though the unions’ succeeded buying you a council seat they lost their on-council moderate drone – Peter Arellano. For four upcoming years, Gilroy must suffer your masters’ voices via your zealous righteousness.
To Dennis Taylor and the comparable anticipated union drones composing their hostile rebuttal to the above, including SOUR GRAPES, BAD SPORT, SORE LOSER and other pleasantries – I wasn’t a candidate so I personally didn’t lose anything.
There are, however, two big losers from this election: 1) Gilroy’s citizens, who endured the foul stench of out-of-community union forces polluting their election process with big money, spent primarily beyond Gilroy’s borders, in a desperate effort to buy into City Council and thus gain leverage to bully coerce the non-unionized Wal-Mart 2) Paul Correa. Though he’ll sit on Council for four years, he’ll carry a heavy burden. Regardless of what issue comes before Council, he won’t be expected to use his ‘knowledge, education and training’ to serve Gilroy. Instead, as a union zealot whose Council seat was paid for, he’ll be expected to do as ordered … not toward benefiting Gilroy but to spread the cancerous dictates of the malignant unions to whom he must forever be obligated.
Tell Gilroy, Mr. Corea: does that expectation make you proud?
James Brescoll, Gilroy
Submitted Tuesday, Nov. 18
