Supervisors Ignore the People’s Will

* On Monday, Judge S. James Otero is scheduled to render his verdict on the constitutionality of Measure F.

While this decision may force us to bring a new measure to the people, with a new formulation of restraints upon our wayward supervisors, it will not change the final outcome: The voters of Orange County will force the three discredited supervisors and the county planning process to bend to their will rather than to the will of a handful of wealthy developers.

Supervisors Chuck Smith, Jim Silva and Cynthia P. Coad have not yet learned this lesson, in spite of the thrashing they took last March 7, when over 67% of all Orange County voters repudiated the county planning process, and said no to an airport at El Toro and yes to measure F.

They are still arrogantly intent on ignoring the will of the people, and forcing an unneeded and environmentally disastrous airport on South County.

They simply do not yet get the message--but in the end, they will answer to the will of the voters, either voluntarily or involuntarily.

MICHAEL SMITH

Mission Viejo

* Re “Airport Backers Going Over Voters’ Heads” (Aug. 25):

Supervisor Chuck Smith’s latest lobbying effort in Sacramento to obtain some legislative edge for the wheezing El Toro airport project is at once desperate and sad.

Desperate, for this is the only avenue that the board majority and their few patrons with a vested interest in this sow’s ear have left, now that a supermajority of right- thinking citizens has deciphered the truth on this issue.

Sad for the taxpayers of Orange County, for this latest gambit by the majority of our county supervisors to change state law to support their sinking cause makes it abundantly clear that they represent their own personal agendas, and not the will or well-being of county residents.

Their primary concern should be leadership, not lobbying against their own citizens. Supervisors Chuck Smith, Cynthia P. Coad and Jim Silva should resign.

RICHARD W. LUBLINE

Aliso Viejo