Letters

The tongue-lashing FFA students got at the last board meeting was way out of line. Statements made by Gloria Lovato-Pacheco, newly installed to the board that very evening, came off sounding quite inflammatory against a group of some of the hardest working students at Robertson.

As parents of FFA students, we thought a few clarifications might be helpful to the Optic readers.

It’s not the workers. It’s not their wages. It’s not the unions. It’s not all the other things the ruling class politicians are blaming.

To borrow, out-of-context, a line from Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, “The word, Mr. President, is war.”

War is making us poor.

Pat Leahan
Las Vegas
 

Board Chairman Dan Romero and some of our board members are attempting to hijack the May 10 Mora-San Miguel Electric Cooperative’s trustee election. Chairman Dan Romero, who is running for District 4 position, and some of our board members have conspired to control the District 4 election by holding the election in a district that I believe cannot make quorum.

Only one voting site has been selected. The election will be held in the far eastern district five miles from Dan Romero’s (Romeroville-Tecolote) home; but as far as 50 miles from voters in our district.

I don’t get it! We have had this water problem since the end of the 19th Century. This 500 percent increase that the mayor wants, is this going to solve our problem? 

Maybe, because many of us will just not water what’s left of our  lawns.