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Help our teachers live in MV
I am a student in Mountain View. It is not fair that paid signature gatherers are saying untrue things to take away fair rent laws in Mountain View. My second-grade teacher needs Measure V to keep living in Mountain View. My kindergarten teacher had to move away because her rent went up by $900 in one year before Measure V became a law. I think it is important that people in this city tell the truth and help our teachers.
I hope everyone has a great summer break!
David Sanchez
Piazza Drive
We need to do better
Regarding the article in the May 18 edition of the Voice (“Council nixes left turns at Castro train crossing”), this letter expresses my disappointment in the article and the related staff report prepared for the council.
Public funding decisions are usually made on the basis of actual problems. The article and staff report completely fail to discuss if there is any actual problem, only the perception of a problem. Both fail to even consider if the current traffic signal operation has resulted in any injuries or fatalities to pedestrians in the crosswalk. The staff report, in particular, mentions the peak hour volumes in an irrelevant way to imply there is a problem, then states the problem will get worse once the new development occurs. But if there is no actual problem now, even if the volumes double there will still be no actual problem because zero times two is still zero.
Hearsay is a very bad basis for spending public funds. We need to do better.
Steve Fitzsimons
Magritte Way
Get money out of local politics
There are paid signature gatherers all over Mountain View, saying anything to trick people into signing for the sneaky repeal attempt of all renter protections! At $40 per signature, some of them are even subcontracting others to do the same. Forty dollars per signature? You can see that the California Apartment Association and the wealthy corporate landlords seemed to be willing to pay any price. They have successfully bought elections in other Bay Area cities.
Do we want to allow them to trick the voters of Mountain View, using their vast wealth to purchase away any trace of integrity in our democratic process? Isn’t it a moral outrage that they have highjacked democracy in other cities? Are we going to sit back and allow it to happen here in our fair city?
One of their tricks is to cultivate and spread confusion with their deception, but we can rise above their underhanded scheme and stop this scam in the signature gathering stage! Do not sign! If you did sign, please go to the city clerk’s office (third floor) and say that you also want to withdraw your signature, like so many have already done.
Steve Chandler
Sierra Vista Avenue
Renter nightmare
About two years ago we lived in a large two-bedroom apartment on Sierra Vista. The rent went up twice so we had downsize to a small one-bedroom apartment. Each year this new place raised the rent, which included monthly cat rent. Then we got a notice that it was slated to be torn down and town homes built in its place. So we moved again!
One and a half years later, two days ago, we got a notice from the city that our apartment complex got sold to a developer and is slated to be demolished next year. There must be at least seven such (instances of) destruction of rental units within a half-mile of where we live. Is this happening in other parts of Mountain View? This is gentrification because I cannot afford to buy even a one-bedroom condo!
Gordon Andrews
Montecito Avenue
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Step one:
It appears that Democratic voters are the least capable of voters to read first, then stop and think, then sign or not sign a petition.
Step two:
Lets say they made a mistake the first time and signed a petition, yes, they can contact city hall and formally have their name withdrawn.
Step three:
Lets say that step one and two are just too darn confusing and they made a mistake twice. Then vote NO on the ballot measure.
You have have 3 chances to correct your mistake. Grow up and stop whining about how hard this is.
Step five: make sure no one votes for John Inks or any other LANDLORD LACKEYh for City Council in the fall.
ditto
To my Montecito Neighbor: it is not gentrification it is rent control. Now the older apartments are a hot potato and everyone wants to sell them. Not every landlord used to raise rent so steeply. I guess you just lucked out somehow, but now everyone is out of luck in rent controlled apartments.
Dear Editor,
One of your residents sends letters to the Cuba paper. I want to return the favor.
Dear Editor,
Freedom to chose is disappearing from the face of America. People spend millions of dollars to convenience you that their choice is good or the other one is bad, and you must follow them without question. Look the lottery, casino gambling, and now marijuana. These sounded great starting out (money for education), but now not so great, unless you like spending money and cannot pay for your kid’s school supplies and meals.
Now we have Prop A, the right to work. There has been millions spent for TV campaigning and signs all over Missouri, an attempt to convenience you that opponents of Prop A need your vote to have a closed shop, in which you must join an union and pay dues. Is it so bad that organizations need a law forcing workers to belong and pay money to work, that workers will not join voluntarily? Where is freedom of choice? Shut up and pay up. Keep your mouth shut. We know better. Vote for them, as we tell you. Where is independent thought? This is like Obamacare, where you are forced into something without choice, too expensive, and pay a fine if you cannot afford it. Not good.
In August, you are voting for Freedom to chose. This is not China or North Korea where you join or go to prison camps. Vote for freedom and free speech. Vot YES on Prop. A.
David Wheeler
Cuba, MO
Step four: laugh when John Inks and his landlord backers fail to qualify their fraudulent initiative for the ballot.
Step five: make sure no one votes for John Inks or any other landlord lacky for City Council in the fall.
@Montecito Neighbor, another 59 unit complex was sold this month only a few blocks from you. It was built in 1970, so those longtime tenants became victims of rent control, too.