Letters

Re “Queen Mary plan is floated,” April 30

Has this story been sitting on the editor’s desk since April 1, and did it just find its way to the top of the pile today? Is this idea -- renovating the long-docked Queen Mary and sending it to sea -- some sort of monstrous joke, or is it another version of Orange County’s Great Park? Why do we invariably, inevitably, perpetually populate City Hall with buffoons who pounce on moronic suggestions like this one?

If someone genuinely wants to extricate something from concrete and float it out to sea, might I respectfully suggest we forget about the Queen Mary and instead dig up the entire Long Beach City Hall building and tow it at least into international waters.

That would have an instantaneous, salutary effect on this city’s financial deficit.

Ralph L. Seifer

Long Beach