Steve Uhring’s diatribe against Webster Elementary School PTA’s support of the Whole Food project, which includes a park and playground, is laughable. He has made a career out of opposing kids and families in Malibu. Check out his record:
– His group sued the school district to keep the kids from playing night sports, and they lost.
– He maligned the Kiwanis Club, suggesting it skimmed money from the Chili Cook-Off, and he was proven wrong.
– He supported the California Coastal Commission’s attempt to replace the ball fields from Bluffs Park with weedy open space (so much for our kids), and he lost.
– His group tried to prevent building Trancas Park with its playing field, playground and dog park, and they lost.
– Most recently, he was part of a lawsuit to stop the 80-plus-acre expansion of Bluffs Park, which will increase recreational opportunities, trails and open space for our youth and seniors, and he lost.
Uhring loves to confuse education with propaganda. For instance, he suggests that Whole Foods really won’t be built there. According to Uhring, it could really be a poisonous-bio-genetic-hormone riddled-non-inspected terrorist Soviet Market, churning out enough DNA splitting GMOs to make our kids turn into Martian unicorns. Never mind that the Vice President of Whole Foods appeared at a City Council meeting to assure us that they had a signed lease.
So, when Uhring now criticizes a group of PTA volunteers who actually work to make the world better for kids, read his record and chuckle. As for the Whole Foods project, I’m with the PTA. They know the difference between a kid and a Martian unicorn.
Doug O’Brien