Prior to his election as a write-in candidate, Councilman Patrick O'Donnell told the Long Beach…Read More Business Journal on February 28, 2012 the following:*****
LBBJ: If you win the reelection, will you commit to a full four-year term?*****
Councilman O'Donnell: If you run for four, you serve four. *****
LBBJ: So, you're not going to run for Assembly in two years? *****
O'Donnell: Correct. *****
LBBJ: No matter what? *****
O'Donnell: Correct. If you run for four, you serve four. *****
If you can't trust O'Donnell's word, why would anyone vote for him to be their representative for political office? *****
http://www.lbreport.com/news/jan13/odonlbbj.htm
Regarding, "do O'Donnell's supporters care?", many of O'Donnell's supporters are in…Read More elected and appointed public positions, and their support of O'Donnell includes placing the financial burden of a $150,000 special election on the taxpayers. I would think that a responsible journalist would ask each of them about that issue.
This opinion piece is so full of self-serving hot air it could float. Two paths will make the beach…Read More look like a freeway? The author clearly hasn't seen too many freeways lately. Speaking of seeing, if the author would care to spend a little time looking at the beach (which I do on a daily basis, as I live overlooking the Bluff) they would realize that the current bike/pedestrian path is the most heavily used and enjoyed segment of the beach from the Belmont Pier to Shoreline Village. On any given day, there will be hundreds of people on the paths, compared with a handful on the sand itself.
The author inadvertently makes that point when he or she writes that the beach "...should be valued for its own recreational value." Clearly, many more people enjoy walking, running or bicycling on the path than on the beach itself. Give the people what they want, and not what a mysterious, nameless, faceless group is trying to block.
Uh, Richard? Opinion pieces are by nature self-serving and one sided. I'm not saying that is agree…Read More with the opinion, just saying that gordana can have her say.