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Letters to the editor: June 15, 2018

Original post made on Jun 20, 2018

This week, letters to the editor about Measure V, living as a renter in Mountain View and the Castro Street train crossing.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 1:29 PM

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Posted by Stop Whining
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Jun 20, 2018 at 6:01 pm

Step one:
It appears that Democratic voters are the least capable of voters to read first, then stop and think, then sign or not sign a petition.

Step two:
Lets say they made a mistake the first time and signed a petition, yes, they can contact city hall and formally have their name withdrawn.

Step three:
Lets say that step one and two are just too darn confusing and they made a mistake twice. Then vote NO on the ballot measure.

You have have 3 chances to correct your mistake. Grow up and stop whining about how hard this is.


Posted by Ralph
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jun 20, 2018 at 9:54 pm

Ralph is a registered user.

Step four: laugh when John Inks and his landlord backers fail to qualify their fraudulent initiative for the ballot.
Step five: make sure no one votes for John Inks or any other landlord lacky for City Council in the fall.


Posted by vincent
a resident of Rengstorff Park
on Jun 20, 2018 at 10:24 pm

Step five: make sure no one votes for John Inks or any other LANDLORD LACKEYh for City Council in the fall.

ditto


Posted by It’s rent control
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Jun 21, 2018 at 4:23 am

To my Montecito Neighbor: it is not gentrification it is rent control. Now the older apartments are a hot potato and everyone wants to sell them. Not every landlord used to raise rent so steeply. I guess you just lucked out somehow, but now everyone is out of luck in rent controlled apartments.


Posted by Polomom
a resident of Waverly Park
on Jun 22, 2018 at 2:21 pm

Polomom is a registered user.

@Montecito Neighbor, another 59 unit complex was sold this month only a few blocks from you. It was built in 1970, so those longtime tenants became victims of rent control, too.


Posted by David Wheeler
a resident of another community
on Jul 22, 2018 at 6:43 am

Dear Editor,

One of your residents sends letters to the Cuba paper. I want to return the favor.

Dear Editor,
Freedom to chose is disappearing from the face of America. People spend millions of dollars to convenience you that their choice is good or the other one is bad, and you must follow them without question. Look the lottery, casino gambling, and now marijuana. These sounded great starting out (money for education), but now not so great, unless you like spending money and cannot pay for your kid's school supplies and meals.

Now we have Prop A, the right to work. There has been millions spent for TV campaigning and signs all over Missouri, an attempt to convenience you that opponents of Prop A need your vote to have a closed shop, in which you must join an union and pay dues. Is it so bad that organizations need a law forcing workers to belong and pay money to work, that workers will not join voluntarily? Where is freedom of choice? Shut up and pay up. Keep your mouth shut. We know better. Vote for them, as we tell you. Where is independent thought? This is like Obamacare, where you are forced into something without choice, too expensive, and pay a fine if you cannot afford it. Not good.

In August, you are voting for Freedom to chose. This is not China or North Korea where you join or go to prison camps. Vote for freedom and free speech. Vot YES on Prop. A.

David Wheeler
Cuba, MO


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