My four heroes

Charles Kite wrote to the Times-Herald: "How disappointing to see that the Orcem project was not settled and that four of the council members want to drag it on and on. It makes people wonder if they elected the right people to represent them."

Wonder? For me it’s more than wonder, it’s more like thunderstruck. They say, "Give a monkey a typewriter and someday he’ll write the Gettysburg Address." That certainly applies here. Give us an election and some day we’re bound to elect the right people. This VMT/Orcem thing proves my point.

Finally, we’ve stumbled onto four politicians (all at the same time) who openly display common sense. Who have the pragmatic foresight to support an actual "common sense vision" for Vallejo’s future and the courage, and! I do mean courage, to USA Museums Titanic room. We will be covering the Orcem decision, Planning stand up to the scurrilous tactics and treatment of the loud, disorderly and aggressive left.

The nasty verbal abuse at meetings is bad enough, but now they’ve escalated to the next level in the fascist agenda. You laugh? You won’t laugh when a stranger "makes contact" with your family. You’ll damn well know what the implications are. What you won’t know is how far he is willing to go to bend you to his will. Will we see black masks and ax handles? I don’t think so. I wonder what the council members think.

The left has shown their hand. We know what they’ve done, we know what they’re capable of and we will remember. And when the time is right, we will remind Vallejo of the strong-arm tactics that the left uses as a matter of course. We will remember that no opponent of the project has ever rejected these methods.

My new heroes are Pippen Dew-Costa, H! ermie Sunga, Jesse Malgopo and Rozzana Verder-Aliga. It remains to be seen if Vallejo can make the right choice two times in a row. By the way, my hat’s off to the Times-Herald and reporter John Glidden for the fine reporting on this story.

— Jack King/Vallejo