Letter of the Week

The Daily Pilot reported that “only” one of three Greenlight-endorsed

candidates was elected to the City Council.

That’s not the story. The real story is:

* Councilman-elect, and Greenlight supporter, John Heffernan paid for

his campaign entirely on his own. Who gave money to Bob Wynn?

* Bob Wynn lost, the only Measure T-endorsed candidate, even though

his campaign money was about the same as the actual Greenlight Measure S

committee’s war chest.

* Steve Bromberg’s win is tainted because without permission he

printed ads in the Pilot with favorable statements from Jean Watt and

Evelyn Hart in an apparently successful attempt to siphon off Greenlight

voters. That might have made the difference for Pat Beek. What

justification does Bromberg offer for his ads?

* Is Gary Hunt’s Irvine Co. promise still good? He said no more Irvine

Co. high-rise amendment requests in Newport, win or lose on Measure S. Is

that promise backed up by deeds (pun intended)?

* In an earlier letter the Pilot didn’t print, I wrote that since Wynn

and company knew that Greenlight wasn’t going to allow enough growth and

expansion in Newport Beach (they said “stagnation” would set in), it

stands to reason that Wynn and company know how much growth is enough.

What is that figure? A yearly percentage? A total number of residents,

high-rises, what? Surely they know, and surely they don’t expect yearly

growth forever, or do they?

I’m all for healing, conciliation and moving on -- after some simple

questions have been asked and you print the answers, or you print that

Wynn, Bromberg and Hunt won’t answer.

For the future of Newport-Mesa, we all should know where these people

stand. They’re the ones most likely to come up with more reasons for the

Greenlight people to stay alert.

After the tremendous ad and mailer campaign of Measure T, and

Bromberg’s illicit endorsement, isn’t a little investigative journalism

in order?

Let the healing begin, in a week or two, after the Pilot asks a few

simple questions and prints a few answers.

MARK DAVIDSON

Costa Mesa