In letters: Stealing campaign signs is counterproductive. Cut it out | Opinion

Nipomo neighborhood not so neighborly

Let me start with this: I’m voting for Kamala Harris. The idea of voting for a scoundrel and serial liar and, let’s be candid, a petulant whiner who basically fomented a coup was never going to happen.

So to show my support, along with many of my neighbors we put up yard signs for the Harris/Walz ticket. Within a day, many were stolen, I would assume by MAGA supporters who say they are for law and order and election integrity, yet seem to have no problem with trespassing and stealing sign and yes, breaking the law.

I guess they think by stealing signs, they can suppress the vote. They won’t!

Laurance Shinderman

Nipomo

Erica Baltodano for school board

Come Election Day we will be choosing between two candidates for San Luis Coastal Unified School District Board of Trustees. The incumbent, Eve Hinton, has a history of posting QAnon video and harmful “pray away the gay” video. She also stated Melissa Gates is satanic. She lacks the integrity to speak with local journalists.

The alternative is Erica Baltodano. Erica is a mother, small business owner, volunteer, attorney, founding member of San Luis Coastal Education Foundation and board advisor to SLO Center for Child & Adolescent Health. This is a no-brainer. Please vote for sanity and elect Erica Baltodano to our school board.

Mark Swain

San Luis Obispo

Reelect Ed Waage in Pismo Beach

I have known Pismo Beach Mayor Ed Waage for 20 years now. We met in 2004 when we served on the Planning Commission together.

Ed is highly intelligent, an excellent objective and critical thinker, and as honest as a person can be.

Beyond that, for the last two decades, he has distinguished himself as a planning commissioner, a member of the City Council, and our mayor, and he has served with honor. As to the latter, experience matters. In order to be an effective mayor, one must have experience as a member of a city council or a similar board or commission. One should also have some experience in public hearings before they attempt to run them.

Also, to effectively represent the city as the head elected official, one should first have experience as an elected or at least an appointed official.

My advice to Mr. Kreowski is the same now as it was the last time he ran for mayor: get some experience on the Pismo Beach City Council or the Planning Commission first.

Mark Burnes

Pismo Beach

Nipomo

Is he really ‘for the people’?

Tribune letters to the editor, (sanluisobispo.com, Oct. 4)

Can we look closer at the comment “Trump is for the people”? Taking a wild guess, I would bet the writer is a white male.

Mr. Trump’s and JD Vance’s public rhetoric seems to indicate not a love for the people, but a hatred for many groups of Americans such as immigrants and women to name a few that they vilify. And as far as being a worldwide businessman, how could we not forget about all those bankruptcies? Or the many workers stiffed for their pay? Or not paying taxes like you and me>

While Trump was running the government, did we ever see an alternative to “Obama Care” or the Affordable Care Act? How about a completed wall at the border? Ironically, we have a convicted felon impugning the character and intelligence of our state’s former attorney general.

What we hear from the Trump team are outright grievances and falsehoods and no ideas on how to make us better again. What we hear from Harris seems to be ideas that will make our country better.

In closing, the writer uses fear-inducing words right out of the mouth of Mr. Trump like “deep state,” “Russian oligarchs” and “liberal media”to justify his reasoning. Those are old and overused stereotypical tropes. I wonder where the letter writer gets his information? Any guesses reader?

Fred Raleigh

Templeton

Vote no on 33

“California is in an affordable housing hole. It’s time to stop digging. Vote for Prop. 33” (sanluisobispotribune, Sept. 21)

Prop. 33 was written and bankrolled by notorious “Slumlord” Michael Weinstein (Google him). He wrote the recent opinion piece in support of Prop 33. Nearly 60% of California voters rejected his nearly identical anti-housing schemes in 2018 and 2020.

Prop. 33 would effectively overturn more than 100 state housing laws, including laws making it easier to build affordable housing. “Rent is high in California because the state does not have enough housing for everyone who wants to live here,” notes the nonpartisan legislative analyst.

To address California’s housing crisis and hold down rents, the state needs to add supply by encouraging new construction. Rent control does the opposite. It discourages investment in new housing — which is key to bringing down costs — and the maintenance of existing housing, which reduces the supply of existing rental housing.

Prop 33 contains no specific protections for renters, seniors, veterans, or the disabled. It eliminates basic protections for homeowners, allowing bureaucrats and politicians to tell single-family homeowners how much they can charge to rent out a single room. Non-Partisan researchers at MIT estimate that Prop. 33 would result in an average reduction in home values of up to 25%. Vote no on Prop 33!

Allen K. Hutkin

San Luis Obispo

Not so ‘grand’ after all

In 1854, a new party was formed to counter slavery. In time, this new party, which would include and elect to the presidency Abraham Lincoln, became known as the Grand Old Party, or GOP.

It’s still an old party, but what happened to its grandness? I say we stop referring to it as the GOP, since “grand” no longer applies.

Rosalie Valvo

Morro Bay