Audie Bock
* Re “Assembly’s Lone Green Switches to Independent,” Oct. 28: It is with both dismay and anger that I write this letter regarding Assemblywoman Audie Bock’s quitting the Green Party to seek reelection as an independent. She is an embarrassment to third-party candidates like myself and to the ideals for which third parties stand.
As a Libertarian currently running for state Assembly against two-term incumbent Democrat Howard Wayne, who raised over a million dollars in contributions in his successful 1998 bid, I took pride and found some hope in seeing a third-party candidate (albeit Green) elected to the Legislature in 1998. By switching parties, Bock has shown her greed, not Green, side and has betrayed the ideals of her party--something I just can’t fathom (and, as a result, I probably will never get elected).
DENNIS TRIGLIA
San Diego
* Once again, a political writer’s fixation on what the Green Party is all about is substituted for research. Your article on Bock dismisses the Green Party’s political philosophy as “environmentally fixated.” The Green Party emphasizes 10 key values. Ecological wisdom is only one. The other nine are grass-roots democracy; social justice and personal responsibility; nonviolence; decentralization; community-based economics; feminism; respect for diversity; global responsibility; and sustainability. No one value is more important than the others.
MEL KERNAHAN
Laguna Woods
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