This year I touted excitement about our potential for change. Change not only nationally but locally with our upcoming city council election.
I fell short of endorsing any candidates but feel compelled to now after reading all the attacks in the letters section and your paper’s recent endorsements for Sibert, Wisnicki and Ulich. Though I concur with the Pamela Conley Ulich endorsement, I cannot sit silent (as Wisnicki does on any issue other than education) and must come out and proclaim support for candidates Jefferson “Zuma Jay” Wagner, Pamela Ulich and Susan Tellem.
The criteria you give for endorsing Mr. Sibert is lame at best. I have stronger credentials as a double-boarded specialist physician with multiple peer-reviewed publications, community service with the Malibu Township Council, and adoption of a two-mile stretch of PCH that I clean twice a month. I have only lived here for three years.
Sibert wilted on the overnight camping issue and he easily rubber stamps any development proposal. Just because he’s a Ph.D. in chemistry doesn’t make him an environmentalist, just the contrary. Just look who is endorsing him! All the usual suspects.
Ms. Wisnicki has laryngitis on any issue that doesn’t involve education. Zuma Jay Wagner, Pamela Ulich and Susan Tellem are open supporters of smart growth for Malibu, improving our water quality and, most importantly, opposition of the overnight camping issue with its heightened fire threat.
Maintaining our quality of life, not standard of living, is what is at stake. So unless we get involved and pay attention to the real issues we can expect no change.
Robert Pousman