Advice for the Politically Lovelorn
Editorial staff

A blog reader wrote: “Did you see the letters in Saddleback Valley News on January 19? Mission Viejo’s nutballs hit the trifecta.”

It’s not unusual for all three members of Councilman Frank Ury’s fan club to send crank letters to SVN. However, to have all three in one issue had a cumulative effect of complete lunacy.

Letter writer No. 1 has become Mission Viejo’s sorest loser. This angry woman lost her 2006 council race and, of course, it’s everyone else’s fault. While complaining about two council members accepting corporate donations, she should have mentioned all the out-of-town cash benefiting her candidacy from a county lobbyist who lives in Orange. Her letter makes vague claims of “hate and lies” but gives no examples. What exactly was printed or said about her that was untrue? The blog’s advice for this letter writer: the voters were right – her calling is clearly not in public service.

Letter writer No. 2 is still wearing a tinfoil hat and defiantly standing directly below the SCE power lines in north Mission Viejo. This is not a joke – he goes out at 3 a.m. to check the electromagnetic field readings. Question of the week: what are normal people doing at 3 a.m.? His Jan. 19 letter to SVN complains that the city council decided to take no action about excessive EMF. As a result, it sounds as if Mission Viejo residents will have to fashion their own tinfoil hats until the next city election. The blog’s advice: anyone who is scared to death of EMF should stay away from power lines.

Letter writer No. 3 is still ranting about Councilman Frank Ury being bypassed as mayor during a council meeting nearly two months ago. If Frank wanted so badly to be mayor, perhaps he shouldn’t have publicly attacked the other four council members over a period of two years or tried to unseat three of them in the last election. Additionally, the third letter writer tries to imply that Southern California Edison controls city politics in Mission Viejo, and that’s funny. Finally, she has the nerve to quote the late Gerald Ford but seems not to grasp one word of the quote. The blog’s advice: those who are extremely unhappy about everything in Mission Viejo should exercise their right to be extremely unhappy somewhere else.

The caption over the three Jan. 19 letters is “November Election Unplugged.” What’s really unplugged is Ury’s fan club. Ury has moved on in a big way. Perhaps his groupies haven’t noticed their champion couldn’t care less about their issues – EMF, Southern California Edison, allegations against the Sheriff’s Department, removal of boulders from street corners or all of their other complaints gathering dust since Ury’s 2004 election.