Letters to the Editor: There’s no reason for Newport council to duplicate D.A.’s investigation

The Newport Beach City Council recently approved the expenditure of staff time and taxpayer funds to investigate the recall efforts of one of their own council members. The question of forged signatures on the recall petition is already being investigated by the Orange County district attorney’s office, an agency that is far better suited to such investigations and one that does not have a dog in the race. I thought this council came into power on the coattails of fiscal restraint? What is the real reason they are pursuing this?

Dudley Johnson

Newport Beach

No reason for city to investigate recall

Re: “Investigation into signature gathering is valid”: We encourage the district attorney’s investigation and will assist in any way we can. On the other hand, the City Council’s desire to see our private emails and confidential invoices is nothing more than political payback by Councilman Scott Peotter. The district attorney is the appropriate person to conduct this investigation, and we look forward to supporting his results.

Lynn Swain

Newport Beach

Advertising circulars litter neighborhoods

If littering is against the law, why are the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register allowed to throw unwanted advertising circulars in our neighborhoods? It’s one thing to subscribe to a newspaper, it’s another thing to have this indiscriminate litter that ends up in gutters, driveways, getting run over by cars, blowing around, just being an eyesore.

Not to mention the waste of paper (trees) and advertisers’ money. No one reads them. Most people can’t be bothered to pick them up, which is why I’ve collected and disposed of several hundred circulars on my daily walks — and have been thanked for it by neighbors who notice.

Michele Burgess

Huntington Beach

Fergie’s rendition disrespected our anthem

What Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith wrote over 200 years ago that became our national anthem was adversely altered, changed and cheaply modified at the NBA All-Star Game by singer Fergie. Her rendition of our national anthem was sung to a slow jazz beat with what sounded like numerous high-pitched unwritten riffs and sultry inflections. The only word I can think of that fits what she did is disrespect to the 10th power.

Bill Spitalnick

Newport Beach

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