Not Thrilled With Coad Pick

* It is a shame that Cynthia P. Coad was chosen to be chairwoman for the Board of Supervisors (“Board Votes Coad Into Lead Seat,” Jan. 10), since Coad is motivated not by the best interests of the county, but by her desire for revenge. She told the Orange County Business Journal in 1999 that she viewed projects like the Musick jail expansion and the El Toro airport as payback to South County.

What grudge did she bear against her southern neighbors? Well, it seems that she had noticed an increase in traffic and congestion in her district, and rather than blame it on the fact that her district had gained 100,000 people in the last 10 years, or that her district was filled with traffic magnets like Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, the Anaheim Convention Center and Edison International Field, she decided that the cause must be the fact that people were moving into South County, 20 miles away.

With her comment about Measure F being “dead,” she has shown she is ready to blithely ignore the express wishes of the two-thirds of the county that is opposed to an El Toro airport, just so that she can pursue her petty vendetta.

ARNOLD BURKE

Lake Forest

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* I was very disappointed to read that Cynthia P. Coad was unanimously elected to head the Board of Supervisors. Her controversial and defiant stance on Measures F, G and H along with her other cronies, Chuck Smith and Jim Silva, make her ill-suited for this position. Furthermore, Tom Naughton’s appointment to the Airport Land Use Commission to replace Charles Zoffer is another egregious act and slap in the face to the citizens of Orange County.

HANS J. ROEHRICHT

Lake Forest