The sky is falling, the sky is falling.
Ventura County Supervisor Steve Bennett has finally resorted to the tactic used by the Bush administration when trying to sway the public to their side. That tactic is fear.
Bennett is now "warning" us that if we vote for Proposition 90, S.O.A.R. will be irrevocably canceled and the county of Ventura will have to file bankruptcy.
He says that because Proposition 90 would limit the circumstances under which the county could walk in and take your property for what they would call "public benefit," and require them to justly compensate any property owner that suffered substantial economic losses due to the action of the county, it is a "bad proposition." He would rather let the county, or any government agency for that matter, have unfettered control over the private property of all citizens — shades of Bush’s stand on unfettered control over all communications by private citizens.
Bennett also has it in his mind that S.O.A.R. and other such growth control laws are what he calls "quality of life" laws. As we all know, soon after S.O.A.R was passed, the price of houses and property in this county skyrocketed out of control. At the present time, less than 25 percent of the citizens of this county can even afford to purchase a home here, and they have the chance of the county taking it for "public benefit." Now I ask you: Does that sound like their "quality of life" has turned for the better?
The best thing for this county is for Proposition 90 to be passed and for S.O.A.R. to go the way of the dodo birds.
— Rellis Smith, Ventura
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