Council Majority Won’t Listen
Letter to the editor

Did Mission Viejo residents see the ad in the April 30 Saddleback Valley News against Mission Viejo’s Right To Vote Initiative (Measure D)? Everything in the ad is an outright lie!

Developers and lobbyists are determined to ruin our well-planned city by bringing in more apartments for their own financial gain. They looped in a few Mission Viejo residents to put their names on ads against Measure D. Those who speak at council meetings against Measure D are led by the two councilwomen we threw out of office years ago: Sherri Butterfield and Susan Withrow.

Susan and Sherri were trounced in the 2002 election after they ruined the area along Crown Valley by rezoning commercial property and bringing in hundreds of apartments. The former council majority ignored 7,000 signatures of residents who objected to more apartments.

I am voting YES on Measure D on June 8, and I am fed up with council members – past and present – who refuse to listen to Mission Viejo residents.

Elizabeth Mimm
Mission Viejo

Editor’s note: Mrs. Mimm sent her letter to Saddleback Valley News in a timely manner for the May 7 edition, and it wasn’t published. SVN on May 7 had another anti-Measure D ad, paid for by a Realtor group.