Letters to the editor

Monterey County Herald
Posted on May 3, 2007

Watching the watchers

I have been keeping an eye out for the LandWatchers. I watch, tend, nurture and maintain my land in the Salinas Valley every day. I have done so for 60 years.
My parents before me and I have been good stewards of the land. I have yet to see any LandWatchers



help with this 24/7, 365-days-a-year task. My daughter says most of the LandWatchers that finance their organization live on the Peninsula, and perhaps a few own investment properties in Salinas or Prunedale. She says the LandWatch donators rarely venture into our beautiful Salinas Valley.

Hmmm.

So I visited a few of my ranch neighbors and asked if they have seen any LandWatchers help keep an eye on our farmland. They have not come in contact with any LandWatch members, except for hired petition signers at Target or the post office. What do these people do?

They hire lawyers from out of town to write an initiative that will prevent my daughter from building her family home on our ranch. This seems like an unfair outcome to my years of back-breaking labor to maintain our farmland. I have spent too many years preserving our beautiful ranches to let them ruin our future. I am voting no on Measure A.


Enri Passerini
Soledad