MATT EGAN, San Clemente
I am firmly against the City Council selecting a new councilmember to fill the vacancy. We just had an election six months ago, and the next-highest vote getter was Donna Vidrine, who lost by a mere 23 votes, one tenth of a percent difference.
If Steve Knoblock is a legitimate office holder, then Donna Vidrine would be just as legitimate an office holder by that slim of a margin.
Let democracy speak instead of a brokered selection process that wreaks of suppressing the will of the people. If not that, then hold a new election.
In a town that is ready to spend $8 million on a pickleball facility or $1.2 million a year to chase the homeless away, I would think we have a mere $100,000 to let our democratic system work.
And I don’t care what Laguna Niguel did; this is San Clemente.
