Scott Baugh

Your March 24 account of the antics of Assemblyman Scott Baugh (R-Huntington Beach) and his Orange County Republican assistants on filing day last year is as amusing as the Watergate burglary--and equally silly. In two frantic hours before the filing deadline they took part in the commission of multiple acts of election fraud, perjury and subornation of perjury, and all on (what else?) their cellular phones, so that the district attorney might have a complete record. The Keystone Kops of California politics.

It is not that they are too corrupt to serve in Sacramento: They are simply too droll. No one could take them seriously. When the case is over, some enterprising producer ought to take an option on the district attorney’s files.

PETER THORSLEV

Encino

* I see in Baugh’s biography that he graduated from Liberty University (March 23). Isn’t that Jerry Falwell’s place, which prides itself on teaching morals and ethics, honesty, truth, justice and all that good and wondrous “Moral Majority” stuff? It just boggles the mind.

BARBARA H. HOWARD

San Clemente

* Judging from the remarks made by our “tough on crime” Republican governor and legislators about the Baugh incident (“Case Could Put a Hitch in GOP Agenda,” March 23), one can only conclude that our lawmakers believe the laws they create should not apply to themselves--just to everyone else. Such arrogance!

EDITH L. McCULLOUGH

Placentia