Vote against red-lining

Good morning, Westy

Thanks for your LTE re: your thoughts on our County’s District 2 Supervisor election. You appear to be a strong advocate for affordable housing, and I think that is a good thing.

Your letter IMO seems to be an effort to “out woke” Charles Stone’s candidacy by suggesting he will affirm red-lining. That suggestion is a not so thinly veiled intimation that voters should connect Charles to racist housing practices of the past.

With one exception, I ordinarily don’t put a lot of stock in the published lists of current and former office holders who agree to endorse a specific candidate. That exception would be the endorsement of the office holder who is stepping away from an elected position. Now, I’m sure Noelia is a good person and qualified to serve on our Board of Supervisors, but the incumbent, Carole Groom, is endorsing Charles as her replacement for District 2. Three of the other four Supervisors are also endorsing him. I feel those supervisors probably know best what it takes to succeed on the Board.

Do you really feel that current Supervisors would support a candidate who “perpetuates the practice of red-lining”?

Hi Anne. I think you are talking about my LTE on 10/4. As Charles offered to Ms. Corzo, I would like to invite you to visit my Belmont neighborhood, where 125 units of affordable housing are in the pipeline; or the Belmont neighborhood where I go to church, where 66 units of affordable housing have recently been completed. I think you will find these are actually lovely neighborhoods where “the nice people live”, as you put it. There is nothing inadequate or simplistic about creating new homes. Sixty-six families will have a place to call here in Belmont in the coming weeks and that wouldn’t have happened without Charles Stone’s leadership.