City’s Lawsuits Are Dirty Politics
Letter to the Editor

City hall’s lawsuits against two council challengers highlight our dysfunctional city council. Councilman Lance MacLean initiated lawsuits against two council candidates, Neil Lonsinger and Cathy Schlicht, and he used our tax money to do it. Doesn’t MacLean have anything better to do?

Isn’t former CUSD Supt. James Fleming facing felony charges for using tax dollars to interfere with an election? I see no difference between what Fleming did and MacLean’s blatant smear campaign against two candidates he doesn’t want on the council.

I’ve had enough of both MacLean and Councilman Frank Ury, who is running for reelection. Instead of representing us, they’ve used their council positions to favor developers who fund their reelection campaigns and add unwanted housing and traffic congestion. Both Ury and MacLean appear to want housing on the Casta golf course and apartments on top of stores at La Paz and Marguerite.

MacLean, Ury and Councilwoman Trish Kelley have now joined together to keep Ury in office and bring in their own candidate, Rich Atkinson. What is Atkinson’s sudden interest in getting on the council?

My vote will go for Lonsinger and Schlict on Nov. 4. I hope MacLean, Ury and Kelley’s effort backfires.

Elizabeth Mimm
Mission Viejo