King City Rustler

A fight for the future

King City Rustler
Posted on May 16, 2007

BY JOANNE BANUELOS
Guest Commentary

Measure A, a fight for the future, has a tough sounding ring to it, don't you agree? When did we become so distrusting of our officials that we can't
decide which way to vote? Yet, it has been said we are in a fight for the future. Are we being lied to? What is the truth? A sign of the times, I fear. By that I
mean the distrust of elected officials. Even if we have known them personally, but still we are not sure.

I had a conversation with a fellow patient at Summit Therapy, (Oh! By the way, Summit has got me back to good health 100 percent, thanks to Monica, Monty, and Rick.), and said, "When talking about Measure A, both
sides state their beliefs with such conviction I can't decide." My advice to him was to "trust our leadership in the community, if you can't decide to believe what you read."

"No, I can't," he said! He continued, "because I don't know them, they haven't always known what was the right thing either. Look at what has happened to our city in the past."

No, I told him that was "our" fault, we didn't pay attention to what was going on. Ask Byron Lynn and why no one would listen. But that's another story. This
time you have had a chance to pay attention and to turn out for these programs our Chamber of Commerce has sponsored for folks to hear and ask questions. I am going to quote one young high school senior who said, "I strongly believe to be so mistrusting that you should totally not go vote, because to vote in ignorance ruins it for the rest of us." In other words, if you can't or don't believe in the GPU4 plan and won't learn, then let it alone. Heavy advice from this young man.

No one denies that Monterey County needs a plan to create a better place to live. But to increase the power of government and to need a permit for
everything that we do? Instead of government regulation and as Tom Carvey of Common Ground has said, it will feel more like government strangulation.
So nothing new built for the next 25 years past Chualar? Ah, come on now, just because the North has all that they need? We have 3,000 square miles, two million acres, to grow just a little so the kids don't have to leave home to find housing and jobs. Or we can sit here and dry up and blow away. I hope I am not too late to say vote "NO" on Measure A.