Soulless?
If Cindy (“Carr Talk With Cindy Chavez,” The Fly, April 14) is pushing a Republican candidate for a major countywide seat, she has no soul. Carr has and will continue to help the cause of the Republican Party in our county. WTF?
L.B. Johnson
Fallon Idol
“According to Chavez, the Liccardo-Pandori-McEnery trinity would run the DA’s office behind the scenes, with Rosen as their frontman.”
If I believed that were the case, I’d almost certainly vote for Rosen. Tom McEnery was the best damn mayor San Jose has had in the last 40 years (the best since Thomas Fallon, perhaps?), and I quite enthusiastically voted for David Pandori in 2006. But alas, a Sam Liccardo endorsement of Mr. Rosen doesn’t seem very likely to entail the happy outcome described above. I’m sticking with Carr.
Kevin O’Keeffe
Taxing Lessons
Looks like some good is coming out of this fracas. (“The Spin of Spend,” MetroNews, April 14). On the one hand, firefighters are grossly overpaid in many respects—overtime, pensions, payment for unused sick leave, etc. On the other hand, San Jose blows a wad every year on ridiculous things, even in the face of being in dire financial straits. With this ongoing dispute, the citizenry is learning quite a lot about how our taxes are spent and misspent.
Greg Howe
Liberal Headlines
What do you expect from a paper with a liberal bias like the Merc? (“What’s a Megasaurus?” SanJoseInside, April 14)
Hugh Jardonn
No More Games
I find it amazing that people find paying taxes so abhorrent for civil services and social programs but are very willing to let the government donate taxpayer monies to billionaires, so that they could build stadiums and soccer fields for their million-dollar hobbies. We need manufacturing jobs, jobs that pay—not games.
Tom Brent | San Jose
