Letters to the Editor: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher should answer questions at Feet to the Fire Forum

It is unfortunate that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa) has not yet committed to the Feet to the Fire candidates’ forum on Sept. 2 (“Arguments over ballot arguments; Sacha Baron Cohen satirizes Dana Rohrabacher,” July 26).

If he doesn’t show, Rohrabacher will evade the press questioning him on important issues in his campaign against challenger Harley Rouda.

Rohrabacher needs to explain why he allowed a comedy show to spoof him into announcing support for arming school kids, whether this is his true position, and, if not, what his true position is. Rohrabacher needs to explain why his actions caused Politico to name him Vladimir Putin’s favorite congressman.

He needs to explain why he traveled to Russia and has dined with the deputy governor of the Russian central bank. Rohrabacher needs to explain why he traveled to London to meet with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Perhaps there are reasonable explanations. Perhaps there are not. However, voters will never hear Rohrabacher explain whether he intends to do anything constructive if voters return him to Congress, and voters may never hear him answer to his past conduct, unless he is willing to put his feet to the fire at the Feet to the Fire Candidates Forum on Sept. 2.

Randy Curry

Newport Beach

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Construction will increase density

I just drove down Jamboree Road from Costco, through a long corridor of buildings. It is lined with condos, apartments and businesses. No California sunshine. And this is what I am afraid of happening to Newport Beach.

Seems like this is what developers and some of our City Council members want to happen. We have lived in Newport Beach for years and seen our neighborhoods change. However, somehow people are moving here because they don’t want an Irvine-Los Angeles kind of community

They want Newport Beach. Not overbuilt, not long dark corridors, not huge traffic jams on the way to work or going home. They want to pay the extra money to live in Newport Beach.

I am thinking that if the Koll Center gets built as a mega-build, it will just be the beginning. This is not a high rise, high-density kind of community with long dark corridors.

Carol Anne Dru

Newport Beach

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Campaign signs are passe

Why must the citizens of Newport Beach and Costa Mesa endure the detritus that are leftover campaign signs strewn along our roadways, often weeks after the election has passed?

In today’s digital age, who even looks at these eyesores anymore? Save some money, politicians, especially since your signs sway no one, along with the “straight-to-wastebasket” mailers on which you also waste your money.

The campaign sign’s time has long since passed, and even more so because you fail to pick them all up after the election.

Mike Aguilar

Costa Mesa

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