Below is my response in the Manteca Bulletin regarding his opinion letter.
I agree with 'more_cops', you certainly have a bias against those who worked hard (something you fail to mention) to achieve their dream of owning a "McMansion" and who by the way pay MORE MONEY IN TAXES for and continue to do so.
You represent a 'belief', and in my opinion your belief should remain personal as the same with being either a Christian or Buddhist. Yes, we have many people living in Manteca that are DECIDING to live here and DECIDING to live on a wage they have chosen. It is NOT our (council) responsibility to help them and is unfair for you to use them as your excuse because they chose to do so. You are a retired city worker and you are treating them as the same, government workers where the citizens should support just like our cops. NO WAY! Your thinking on this is the same as Obama-nomics, costly in the long-run and will cheapen the neighborhoods where these "McMansions" sit thus bringing the values of these properties down and it will eventually suffer the city coffers on those tax revenues. The only way for you to have your dream come true to work would be to bull-doze all those homes down you don't like.
Manteca has chosen and VOTED to have "McMansions" in this city to bring about higher revenue in turn for those who have achieved their success to be able to live in peace, live in a nice neighborhood and live without the crime ridden welfare (Workforce) housing sitting right next to them. They want their children to have a good upbringing less tougher than they did when growing up so they can contribute to society when they become adults, not have to live with the low-life's that chose to live that way and bully them on the streets and tag the streets they live on. Quite frankly, Manteca has gone in the right direction because we know we don't want to become a suburb of Stockton.
Manteca already has enough mixing of housing and plenty of houses already. We also do NOT NEED ANYMORE NEW HOUSING in Manteca. Let's finish the building of what was left and leave it there. The new council should focus on business filling in the vacant lots and buildings just sitting all around town.
It's time for a new Mayor of Manteca and I will not be voting for anyone who has a retirement from this city because your thinking is the same and will remain so, bureaucracy. Your plan also has too much tax remedies in it that will continue to force everyone in Manteca to pay for your big WELFARE HOUSING mistake. That leaves only one other left and as I recall, he too is against this and has mentioned it several times in his 2008 election.
You've had 30 years to bitch about this to the city council and how come you haven't? You're on the Kiwanis club and as a president with Willie, how come you don't have coffee with him about this? If you're that passionate about this, how come you didn't quite your job in protest? There is another city council candidate who has a noise problem with his neighbors and the current city council has done absolutely NOTHING about it and there is a document signed by you that proves you did NOT do your due diligence on it and thus gave a legal document to these people who are conducting an illegal business on their residential property costing the city of Manteca tens of thousands of dollars in tax revenues since your signature on that document June 29, 1993 letter from the City of Manteca signed by Ben Cantu based on unverified information from the lawbreaking owner. http://way2noisy.blogspot.com/2009_02...
Manteca has lost so much money on these people because of this mistake and lazy approach to doing the job right. I'm sure this isn't the last oversight.
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