Re “Next hurdle for La Jolla cityhood effort may be legal action by San Diego” (May 18): It is disturbing that our La Jolla representative to the San Diego City Council voted in favor of “authorizing the city attorney to proceed with litigation” questioning the authenticity of the signatures gathered in the petition for La Jolla seeking to separate from San Diego. Then Joe LaCava was “out of the office due to sickness” and unavailable for comment with representatives of his constituency.
This does not feel like he has our La Jolla community’s best interests in mind when so many La Jollans have signed that they want to be a separate entity from San Diego and he votes to challenge our request.
La Jolla should have a representative who truly, actively represents the citizenry.
— Keys Allan, La Jolla
Mayor Gloria feigns “outrage” over an independent agency’s verification of signatures from La Jolla residents seeking independence from the city of San Diego.
But I think “fearful” is a more accurate description of the mayor’s response.
He knows a referendum on La Jolla’s proposed independence will include a lively and very public debate about the failures of his istration and the benefits of secession for La Jolla.
Thousands of La Jollans think they can organize a local government that will do a better job providing basic city services and running a financially sound government than the mayor has done. Others want their community to remain part of our city.
That debate would be healthy, and an excellent example of the democratic process.
Rather than stifling this discussion with a costly and pointless legal challenge, the mayor should let the debate continue, and the votes be cast.
— Paul Krueger, Talmadge
