Greenlight proponents asking for greenbacks I am...

Greenlight proponents asking for greenbacks

I am angered by a mailer I received from Greenlight this week

regarding its legal action against the city. Who do they think they

are?

The nerve of them to file a lawsuit against the city -- we the

residents are the city -- and then to ask us to send them money to

pay for their lawyers. This “send us money so we can sue you request”

is treating residents like we were born yesterday.

Well Phil Arst, I will send you my two-cents worth right now. When

former Gov. Gray Davis ran amok, we recalled him. We should now take

a hard look at recalling the Greenlight initiative.

BOB DIXON

Corona Del Mar

Caution: Greenlight is turning yellow

Phil Arst and his Greenlight cohorts are always reminding Newport

Beach residents that we voted in favor of the Greenlight initiative

by 62% in the November 2000 election. What he fails to state is that

in the November 2002 election, 60% of voters voted against

Greenlight-backed City Council candidates.

Only Councilman Dick Nichols won and he was in a three-way race

and did not even get 50% of the votes.

Greenlight needs to see the writing on the wall: The organization

has taken a good thing and run it into the ground. I, for one, am

sick and tired of them.

ROBB DAVIS

Newport Beach

Eagles’ coach firing sends bad message

In regard to the firing of Estancia basketball coach Tami Rappa

(“Coach Rappa fired, miffed at Estancia” March 25):

Estancia High School Principal Tom Antal’s reasoning for the

firing of Rappa for running up the score in a basketball game is

somewhat flawed. How many times have we seen the Los Angeles Lakers

ahead by 15 or 20 points and watch that lead disappear and turn into

a loss?

If I were on the opposing team, and the winning team’s coach asked

his players to shoot left-handed or just pass the ball around and not

shoot, that would make the loss seem ever worse.

By Antal’s reasoning, he should be fired for allowing his students

to take advanced placement courses and run up their grade point

averages to get into college. If he wants to run a feel-good program,

why not take some of the points away from the hard-working students

and give them to the students with poor grades to help them get a

higher education?

Feel good does not work in the real world. Hard work and

performance is what you are judged on. I hope you are not sending

hundreds of the students into the world every year thinking if they

just show up, everything will be OK.

ANDY ANDERSEN

Costa Mesa