More debate about Nichols

It seems Dick Nichols suffers from terminal “foot in mouth” disease.

His “taken out of context” excuse doesn’t fly. This man is not a

worthy council representative and he should be expelled from the

Newport Beach City Council.

Yet another apology and statement of remorse should not be

accepted. This latest offering is inexcusable, and there are many

capable, caring and intelligent people out there who can better

represent us.

CAROLYN FITZ-GIBBON

Newport Beach

I find it humorous that there is such an uproar over Councilman

Dick Nichols’ statement. The truth is that he said what many in

Newport and Costa Mesa hold in their very hearts.

I know many will disagree with me, but the number of extreme

conservatives in Orange County is frightening. Although most are

smart enough to hold back their tongue, the occasional slip occurs

now and then, so that we can recognize their true agenda.

If public opinion forces Councilman Nichols to resign, he can move

to Costa Mesa and get support from the some of the core Costa Mesa

“improvers” -- his ideology seems to fit perfectly with this group.

FRED MEYERS

Costa Mesa

While what Dick Nichols said about certain groups of people

monopolizing portions of the grass area at Corona del Mar State Beach

may be true, that does not excuse his obvious ethnic bias in the

terminology that he used to describe these people. He says that he is

a victim of political correctness.

Well, I want to ask him the following question: Is the problem

with access to the grass area that some groups of people, maybe

selfishly, monopolize the area, or is it that groups of

Mexican-looking people are the ones doing it? If you are not bigoted,

then why did you make a point of mentioning the ethnicity of the

group? Would you have mentioned the group’s ethnicity if they

happened to be white, Anglo-Saxon Christians?

As a City Council member, I would hope that you would learn to

think about how you are going to say something before opening your

mouth. You represent all of the citizens of Newport Beach, which

includes some of Latin American descent. They too pay taxes and buy

things in Newport Beach and have a right to be treated with respect,

no matter where they or their parents were born.

PAUL KELLY

Costa Mesa

I have lived here since the early 1970s, came down in the ‘50s and

‘60s in the summer, and if you don’t know the truth when it hits you

in the face, you need to come up out of your holes. I stopped going

to the beach 15 years ago because of the Mexicans. The “Coast Guard”

beach was the only one left, and they infested that, too.

Mayor Steve Bromberg, these are the people Mexico does not want

and is glad to rid themselves of: poor, low class, unproductive,

uninspired, uneducated. Two out of five of them don’t have high

school educations, and probably, four out of five are illegal. At the

beach, they are rude, yelling at each other in order to be heard over

their radios playing Mexican music at top volume, aggressive and

totally without manners.

Go down there yourself if you do not believe this statement. They

do not speak English, the language of this country. The money they

make here, usually as “leafblowers,” goes right back to Mexico.

If you want Nichols to resign because he speaks the truth, your

marked fright in the face of facts and your inability to act on

behalf of your constituents against the remorseless degradation of

our lives here, suggests you are the one to resign.

LINN AITKEN

Corona del Mar

Exposed first as a paranoid Babbit and now -- with his

unbelievable suggestions for segregating our beaches -- as an

unapologetic racist, Dick Nichols is the dead mouse on the city’s

kitchen floor.

He should, metaphorically, fall on his sword and resign, sparing

us the hassle and expense of prying him out of office with a recall.

For who now in his constituency -- other than a few cranks like

himself -- or in the council chambers would take him seriously? Who

would listen to his proposals or consider his opinions? With whom

could he arrange political alliances and conduct the people’s

business?

He is alone, politically neutered and publicly scorned. And if he

believes “fighting” these charges is somehow noble and admirable, he

is also deluded.

It’s time for this bigoted troglodyte to step down.

LARRY PLATT

Newport Beach

Had I wanted to infiltrate the Greenlight group and sabotage their

good work, I could not have done better than to campaign for the

election of Dick Nichols.

BILL BENNETT

Newport Beach

What a thoroughly outrageous and shameful statement by Councilman

Dick Nichols, made even more shameful when he tried to defend the

statement the following day.

This brings to mind the bigoted statement made by a member of the

Greenlight Committee that approval of the Balboa Bay Club’s

application for expansion would bring in “outsiders.” (Nichols was,

of course, endorsed by this same committee.)

I’m proud to be an American, but I’m ashamed of being represented

by such a bigot.

DONALD RAMSAY

Newport Beach

Dick Nichols absolutely should resign from the Newport Beach City

Council. His ignorant, insensitive and offensive comments prove that

he is a bigot and there should be no place for him in any public

office. He is an embarrassment to the community.

CHERYL MOYER

Costa Mesa