Sees Masry as a carpetbagger

As a 28-year resident of Thousand Oaks, I'm rather amused and saddened by Louis Masry's attempt to buy himself a City Council seat. The facts are very clear for my amusement and sorrow:

1. Louis has lived in Thousand Oaks for all of the last five months.

2. Prior to that, he has never owned a home in our city.

3. Before renting his current home, he lived in Moorpark where he failed in an attempt to be elected to their City Council, being soundly rejected by the Moorpark voters.

Sadly, Louis is trying to ride on his late father's name in the off-beat hope that it will carry him to victory despite his apparent carpetbagger status.

And how's this for a laugh: Louis keeps referring to himself as his late father's chief-of-staff, but city council members in Thousand Oaks do not have chiefs-ofstaff or individual staff-members.

It is true that our city has staff, but Louis has never worked for the city.

Louis also claims that his late father would have wanted him to run for Thousand Oaks City Council. That may be true, but that also begs the question: where will Louis try next after he loses here?

Louis is far, far away from being the most qualified person running for City Council and I strongly suggest that the community vote for candidates who have really lived in our town, who really understand its needs and who have shown their strong and unwavering commitment to serving the entire community and not their own self-serving interests.

A seat on our City Council is not a job for carpetbaggers and gadflies; we need the best people to be council members and not merely someone who wants to inherit a throne.

We definitely do not need another emperor who wears no clothes. Mervyn Kopp Thousand Oaks