Dana Point Recall Effort Is Justified
In your Feb 4. article “Dana Point Recall Vote Sets Off City Squabbling,” the people who voted to stop the development of the Headlands were branded by opponents as “absolute extremists” and lacking “vision.”
The Headlands is one of the most beautiful undeveloped promontories in California. It represents the very character and natural integrity of its namesake, our hometown, Dana Point. The plan to defile it with a $500-million, 400-room resort hotel and 300 houses constituted an obscenity far more extreme than any leveled by those who would perpetrate such a crime.
Councilwoman Judy Curreri, Mayor Karen Lloreda and Councilman Harold R. Kaufman knew that a majority of our town was against such development, yet have voted lock-step with development interests in initially voting to approve Headlands development far more expansive than the aforementioned.
They also have had no ethical or moral problem in accepting campaign contributions from the very interests.
Your article accurately describes the acrimonious, sometimes carnival atmosphere the council meetings have degenerated into. However, that sad situation is a direct response to and equaled by the sheer arrogance and deaf ears evidenced by those three.
The recall effort is not extremist, alarmist or nonvisionary. Sadly, its only infirmity is that it is long overdue.
JON M. ALEXANDER
Dana Point
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