Ping-Pong Foe

Damnitall. When will San Diego ever get a mayor who is not conducting city business while at the same time running for higher office in California?

I refer to the outrageous rejection of the San Diego Automotive Museum by Mayor Maureen O’Connor, who swallowed the campaign of disinformation and selfishness by the Ping-Pong players and cloggers who infrequently use the Balboa Park Conference Building.

Since when are Ping-Pong and dancing more important than the history of the automobile? Gary H. Kaine and his cadre of whining crybabies would have us all believe that a gang of rich car collectors are trying to get free storage for their expensive classic automobiles at the expense of the San Diego electorate, who will have nowhere else in the entire city to stomp their feet. Of course, that is false.

If Mayor O’Connor had started attending all the public hearings for over the past year as I did, she would have seen through Mr. Kaine’s smokescreen of baloney and understood who the real special interest group really is.

The San Diego Automotive Museum, as well as the existing museums in Balboa Park, offers something far more important for San Diegans than an occasional Ping-Pong game in which only a very select group can participate. The Automotive Museum establishes the tools, including an important research library, for the populace to study the evolution of the automobile.

I strongly believe that Maureen O’Connor will make a fine U.S. senator for California someday. On this issue, however, if our mayor fears losing votes because she mistakenly believes that San Diegans will have no place to dance, she will not get my vote.

PAUL M. LEVERENZ

San Diego