affordable housing, and further delays to updating our 1980s General Plan. The local transfer of public wealth to the wealthy is the sad equivalent of our nation’s corporate bailouts, job exports and offshore tax havens. “Joe” Bonino claims he is running against Linda Atkins because “without two candidates, you have Russia” (“Watching Ward Two,” Oct. 11). However, with five like-minded Eureka city council members, we’d have the product of a tyranny forewarned by this nation’s founders. George Clark, Eureka Editor: I live in the Eureka City Council district where Linda Atkins, the incumbent, is running for office and one of her opponents is Joe Bonino. In the beginning he said he was running because he didn’t think anyone should run unopposed. Might that be the first lie Joe Bonino tells us? I think he is running because his buddy Rex Bohn (the county supervisor in my district) asked him to and has contributed generously to his candidacy. Interestingly, Bonino’s signs so resemble Bohn’s. Bonino’s other major contributors are developers including Kramer Investment Corp. And Bohn is the supervisor who at the last minute ran out and bought a house when he
found out the office he wanted was outside the limits of his home. Wow! I wonder how many of us can afford to do that? Now I’m not saying Rex Bohn did anything illegal. A member of the board of supervisors can legally contribute to the candidacy of a person running for city council. It seems like it is stacking the deck a bit, but it isn’t illegal. And I’m not saying Rex Bohn hasn’t done nice things in this community. But his generosity seems a bit over the top for “nice.” Eda Bachrach, Eureka
Just Label It! Editor: Thank you for the informative piece “The $38 Million Label” (Oct. 11). Until recently, I did not worry about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in my food, but I have been very concerned for younger people having reproductive issues down the road with too many pesticides inside the seeds or the engineering that makes the foods “Roundup ready.” After consulting a naturopathic doctor about some issues, and getting my blood and saliva testing results, I found out I have allergies to so many foods that I never had allergies to before. Along with not eating continued on next page
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