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Laguna Beach Independent Letters Section

Madison’s Unproven Claims Disqualify Him

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Editor, All candidates for city council should be commended for undertaking the arduous process of a campaign, where they are relentlessly questioned about every detail...

Can’t Support an Uninformed Candidate

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Editor, I read with interest the results of the forum for candidates for City Council reported in the Independent. I was disappointed to read that...

GOP Criticizes Zur Schmiede’s Campaign Tactics

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Editor, Rob, Toni and Village Laguna are the big money ticket in 2014. If you could buy an election, they win!  But VL spent 10...

Letters Fail to Illuminate

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Editor, I think it is time for the local newspapers to stop publishing candidate-related political letters during election campaigns, with a possible exception for letters...

Crackdown Leaves Kayaker Stranded Onshore

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Editor, I read Micheal Ray's column about Fisherman's Cove. (Musings on the Coast, The Madness at Fisherman's Cove, Oct. 16) It is a shame that...

Why a Fulltime Treasurer is Needed

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Editor, Citizens of Laguna Beach! It’s Paul Merritt, your candidate for Laguna Beach City Council, with a critical expose of gross negligence and fiscal mismanagement. In...

Voter Questions Brown’s Judgment

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Editor, What’s not to like about Ketta?  Unpretentious charisma, great soccer mom, school volunteer.  Good character not in question, it’s her judgment that let us down. Ketta Brown...

Is Zur Scmiede a Committed Volunteer?

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Editor, I find it an offensive stretch of the truth that candidate for City Council Rob Zur Schmiede considers himself a "committed Laguna Beach volunteer" yet he only graduated in June from the...

Merritt Defender Takes a Stand

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Editor, The campaign for the Laguna Beach City Council is in full swing and I have serious concerns. I’m concerned that citizen groups and candidates...

Grossman Criticizes Council’s Lack of Responsiveness

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Editor, “I am writing Mayor Pro Tem Bob Whalen to complain. I urge you to do the same,” Michael Ray wrote in an Oct. 17...

A Battle Over a Ballot Description

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Editor, I was not questioning whether or not Ms. Hall has ever done community service (“Hall Rebuts a Voter’s Assumption,” Letters, Oct. 17). I was...

Laguna Needs Community Oversight of Police

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Editor, Santa Rosa established a community and local law enforcement task force following a shooting by Deputy Erick Gelhaus, who believed the airsoft rifle the...

Iseman Earns Writer’s Gratitude

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Editor, I appreciate the learning I've received from the City Council candidates forums. As a result, I am more aware of the intricacies of what it...

Hall Represents Fresh Ideas

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Editor, Michele Hall and I go way back, at least 20 years.  She is a hard worker, does her homework and is not afraid to...

Hall Rebuts a Voter’s Assumption

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Editor: As a candidate for city council, I understand completely that residents who do not agree with or question some of my positions are going...