Letter to the Editor: Why I'm Voting No on Measure R

As a long time resident with an immodest resume as an ardent environmentalist, planner, academic and author, I was asked after attending the recent Reiner rally by a Measure R proponent why I was voting NO.

I personally and professionally believe it is a flawed, weak, and misdirected measure that will be ultimately costly to all involved, and will not achieve what it is suppose to: protect and preserve Malibu.

But before I could murmur two words the proponent castigated me while poking me in my ailing chest. Ouch.

That also gives me another reason for voting NO: the posturing proponents have obscenely outspent the opposition nearly 10 to I. And much of it has gone to denigrate Steve Soboroff, who I have known for 30 years during which time I estimate he has spent more time and good will in Malibu than most residents.

The monies and efforts could have better gone to identify and oust the real culprits, our self-aggrandizing paranoid council and self serving fatuous city government, who if they had been doing their job as charged in our General Plan could have avoided the unfortunate present conflagration.

Sam Hall Kaplan

Trancas Dog Park denizen