Missing More Than a Candidate
* When more attention is given to a missing candidate than a live, active one (“48th District Candidate Is No-Show, Oct. 5), we wonder why the media and, seemingly, the Democratic Party, are so intent on preserving the political status quo in South County.
Besides ignoring national issues of education, health care and jobs; coverage of local concerns like recent pollution-caused beach closures, developers extending the toll road through our backyards, soaring electricity rates from San Diego Gas & Electric, jets from the proposed airport decreasing our property values, and the daily threat of living with a potential nuclear disaster, the San Onofre power plant, are blacked out.
Like previous elections, voters get no choice.
The no-contest campaign is handed over to a self-financed millionaire candidate while gossipy party officials and the press play “Where’s Waldo?”
Coincidental or intentional?
DIANNE FARRELL
San Juan Capistrano
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