Mailbag: Senator benefits from pensions he decries

It is amazing, but not surprising, to again find state Sen. John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) attacking public service employees in his Oct. 21 letter to the Daily Pilot (“Commentary: Public employee union donations pose a conflict”). Moorlach has made a career going after the pensions of teachers, police officers, firefighters and other public service employees.

Now Moorlach is attacking the right of these employees to have their voice heard. The irony of these persistent assaults is Moorlach himself is taking a pension from Orange County taxpayers while he takes more than $100,000 in taxpayer money for sitting in the Senate.

Ari Élan Grayson

Laguna Beach

The writer is a candidate for the 37th state Senate District.

Outdoor theater was too loud

The Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre was a bad neighbor. Thunderously loud music I could hear almost two miles away in Laguna Woods. I complained for years and got the run-around. Now such music is moving two miles to the east. If there are neighbors there, they will suffer. It’s all for money.

Al Garner

Laguna Woods

Election lends itself to metaphor

At last, a brave white knight has arrived to save America. He has arrived with only a lance and horse, which he paid for himself, to overthrow the enemies of freedom entrenched in their fortified castle called the Capitol. He risks all despite that many of his fellow knights who had pledged to support the fight to free us, fled like cowards from the battle.

Regardless, he has fought on even knowing that the demons opposing our freedom are fully armed with a large army of enslaved followers. However, the knight also knows that vast numbers of the peasants that he wants to free are behind him and will support him to free their land from the self-serving demons. If you are one of enslaved followers of the regime, this will be the last chance in your lifetime to cast off the chains and join the knight and his freedom fighters.

Dave Connell

Laguna Beach