If you're against rampant growth, vote yes on B

Measure B provides to the voters of Thousand Oaks the right to vote on major projects which will impact traffic, noise and other environmental issues. This offends former city employees drawing pensions, current city employees pursuing their own version of the "Thousand Oaks full employment act," vendors doing business with the city and, of course, the four members of the city council who control the city.

The city council spent $100,000 of taxpayer money to create a spurious "study" of this measure. It enlisted Home Depot and Janss Marketplace to sponsor daily mailings to tell the citizens- by implication- they're stupid; only four members of the City Council are smart enough to determine our fate. If we give ourselves the right to vote, we'll destroy the city, according to these people, who cash checks from the taxpayers every two weeks. Andy Fox appointed Irwin to the planning commission, then got her elected to the council. When Ed Masry died, the council in a 3-1 vote denied the citizens the right to vote on a successor.

Fox and his cohorts appointed Glancy, Fox's appointee to the planning commission.

Gillette draws one pension from Ventura County and is now working on his second from Thousand Oaks. He travels extensively at city expense. The record will show he votes with Fox, Glancy and Irwin close to 100 percent of the time.

Gillette has stated in his opposition to Measure B mailings that he's concerned with loss of revenue. Why did he vote himself a recent pay raise? Why does he travel at city expense for meaningless nonsense?

The Acorn presents inflammatory, false headlines in its letters to the editor attacking Measure B. It's shameful.

It's more than distressing that you'd become the propaganda machine for Fox, his financial backers and others who feed at the trough of taxpayer money.

Do you disagree with the ad paid for in your paper which states: "Measure B will increase Thousand Oaks values" as stated in a University of California, Santa Barbara economic forecast dated March 18, 2008, which Fox and his followers ignored?

As did you.
Ronald Hartman
Thousand Oaks