Need for new stadium is pure horse feathers

Letter to the San Diego County Supervisors:

"I am writing to you out of a deep concern for the county's

contribution of tax money to a 'study' of the issue of building a new sports stadium to accommodate the Chargers football team.

"My concern would become a vehement protest should the matter escalate to a county taxpayer gift of many millions of tax dollars to a family, the Spanos, who already have a fortune in excess of a billion dollars, to help fund an un-needed football stadium so that the Spanos family can accumulate even more wealth! Myself and many others, similarly situated, feel marginalized and steamrolled in this tax-money grab.

"A new stadium is not needed, un-necessary and the idea is insulting when over $70 million were expended just a few years ago on the existing and quite adequate stadium in Mission Valley. The movers and shakers behind this misbegotten plan, care not for the citizens who will be taxed to pay for their greedy gambit. I have to laugh when I read some of the deceptive comments by those who would profit from a new sports stadium.

"If this fetid plan comes to a vote, I will be in the forefront of those opposed and will work tirelessly to defeat such an evil undertaking. Pure horse feathers!

"I would not be opposed however, to use county tax-derived funds to fix infrastructure, roads and projects that actually benefit the tax-paying citizens who have been shoved aside for too long."

Thomas G. Johnson