I am incensed over Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor's comments regarding Wednesday's drive-by shooting in Costa Mesa (Voices, Friday). How about some sympathy for this young man's family and our community, which has to cope with this violence? Or maybe some assurances that our police department will do everything in its power to arrest the perpetrator. Instead, we get finger pointing and political mumbo-jumbo. Do we really want someone who is this plebeian to be the head of our city? I cannot wait until November when he is gone!
LIZABETH MCNABB
Mesa Verde
As a longtime Costa Mesa resident, I was saddened by the news of the drive-by shooting. However, I was appalled by the comments of our mayor. Hopefully all residents will remember to vote in November's council race.
KATHLEEN COX
Costa Mesa
I must admit that I was impressed to read our mayor's comments in Friday's paper. I had thought that Mayor Allan Mansoor was worrying about the wrong issues in Costa Mesa when he spearheaded the drive to eliminate the human relations commission, close the job center and direct our local law enforcement officers to get involved with enforcing the current failed U.S. immigration policy. But I didn't realize just what an excellent amateur detective Mansoor is. Despite the fact that our police officers reportedly don't have any clues as to whom the gunman is or why he shot at the men in an alley of the 1300 block of West Baker Street, Mansoor has decided that the gunman is a gang member who, by implication from his other quoted comments, was one of the illegal immigrant workers who frequented the job center, ate at local soup kitchens, lived in a local downscale rental unit and probably had contact with an ineffective social worker. I guess that this desperate individual must have driven down to the job center earlier in the day, found out that it had been closed and got so enraged that he decided to drive up to an alley off Baker Street and just shoot someone.
