Supervisors Show Lack of Conscience

So Supervisors Roger R. Stanton, William G. Steiner et. al. have decided the county financial crisis is over (“4 O.C. Officials End 5% Cut, Take Full Pay,” Aug. 8).

Are mental health patients receiving full services now?

Are Orange County veterans getting pre-bankruptcy help?

Are the libraries running at regular hours and full budgets?

Have services for the homeless been restored?

How can anyone with a conscience take any pay while citizens still suffer the painful consequences of the supervisors’ blunders?

But conscience was never a requirement for that post, apparently.

DAVID PECK

Laguna Beach

* Re “Lewis Requests $200,000 More for Bankruptcy Defense,” Aug. 8:

To eliminate the possibility that Orange County will be driven into bankruptcy once more, by defending the very people that had a hand in putting us there in the first place, I propose we pass a law to help out us poor taxpayers.

If any elected official or government employee is accused of wrongdoing in the scope of their job, they will have the full support and all of the resources of our fine public defender’s office. If they choose to hire a private attorney of their choice, they are free to do so with our full blessings, but they must do so out of their own pockets and not the taxpayers.

ROLAND LUCHINI

Santa Ana

* It seems very strange that the connection between the two articles in today’s Times isn’t made more obvious.

The supervisors didn’t fulfill their obligations to “supervise,” and yet monies that might have gone to our libraries are now being voted (by the supervisors themselves) to pay their legal fees! Where is the accountability for doing the job of Board of Supervisors?

The libraries need, and will make far better use of, this taxpayer money. Knowledge is the most essential tool any of us have in such a diverse and complicated society as ours. Please keep our libraries opened and well-stocked.

JANET INEZ ADAMS

Costa Mesa