The Proposal to Name a Street After Sam Porter
I don’t care how “colorful” or “controversial” a “maverick” Sam Porter is, he has no business having anything named after him, let alone a street that already has an established name.
I don’t know Sam Porter. In fact, I had never heard of him before the last election. I don’t live anywhere near the Trabuco Highlands development, but I do live in an area that is still littered with the detritus of his unsuccessful campaign for a seat on the County Board of Supervisors.
Bastanchury, State College Boulevard and Imperial Highway in North Orange County are still marred by warped, drooping homemade signs trumpeting that he is not obligated to any developer and that he is a good friend of the environment. If he is such a dedicated environmentalist, he should have seen to it that those signs were long gone, not hanging there more than two months after the election.
Sam Porter should clean up his own act before the Board of Supervisors rewards him for his colorfulness.
MARY SAMPSON
Yorba Linda
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