Closing Statements: Andy Lyon

From April 3-6, Malibu Patch will share a running series called 'Closing Statements.' It will give the seven City Council candidates an opportunity to share with readers their final thoughts regarding the upcoming election. Election day is April 10. The statement below is written by Andy Lyon.

It is time to take back Malibu before it is too late.

We are at the crossroads of where Malibu is heading...choose wisely and think about why you live here.

Do you want a council that is going to tell you that everything is out of their hands while outside agencies force massive projects on us to benefit commercial developers and THEIR vision of what Malibu should be? Do you want a council that is buddy-buddy with the groups that stand to profit off these projects, like the lagoon project?

If you are fine with that answer, that it is a done deal in regards to the sewer and want to live with all that comes with it, then vote for either Sibert, House, or Laetz.

If you don’t have a problem with bulldozers coming in and destroying the lagoon, the very place that Malibu was named after...the heart of Malibu, then vote for those guys.

If you want the same machine that is running our town to continue to drive us down the road to a place that doesn’t look like Malibu, vote for them. 

The whole point of becoming a City was to avoid the sewer that would allow for the overdevelopment of Malibu and outside groups having influence on decisions affecting Malibu. 

But if you want to try and stop it, you’ll have to send some different people to City Hall. YOUR CITY HALL. Come with us! I don’t want to do it alone. The issues that face Malibu need community involvement, not decisions by a City manager or City attorney that don’t live here. 

Malibu, you can send a whole new majority to the council and WE WILL LISTEN TO YOU !!!