The fact that 10 candidates are running for the T.O. City Council in addition to the three incumbents says one thing.

Residents are dissatisfied with the longtime incumbents Andy Fox and Dennis Gillette, who together combine for 36 years on the council if elected.

I say enough already!

We need term limits, and I support planning commissioner and candidate Al Adam, who’s also spearheading a term-limits initiative. It’s the only way to throw out incumbents who get too corrupt and manipulative over the years.

Longtime officials know how to work the system to their own benefit rather than their constituents.

How else does Congress get an 11 percent approval rating and a 90 percent reelection rate?

California legislators and the Ventura County supervisors have term limits. Now is the time for the T.O. City Council, too.

Did you know that the City Council wastes our taxes by paying their lackey city manager and frontman, Scott Mitnick, $350,000 a year? Good work if you can get it.

Our longtime council members are also beholden to the Auto Mall dealers and billionaire real estate developers, such as Rick Caruso, for campaign contributions and whatever other perks they must get behind the scenes.

There’s no other way to explain the giveaways of our tax dollars, such as $400,000 for an extra 10 parking spaces for The Lakes strip mall.

Be on the lookout, conveniently after the election in November, for Fox and Gillette to approve the proposed huge lighted-TV screen sign for the Auto Mall on the 101 Freeway.

They may as well add some parking spaces there, too, because it will be like the old drive-in movies.

Drivers will need sunglasses when they pass through T.O. at night. What happened to the standards our city founders set in the 1960s? John Fonti Thousand Oaks