This is really my personal response and opinion in reference to the Native American burial site that was found on the Bolsa Chica Mesa. Is there now a conspiracy going on here? 87 human bones? 4,217 artifacts? Questionable business practices? Reported or unreported? If it looks like a duck… walks like a duck… quacks like a duck… well!

The real issue here is not right or wrong… it’s politics. Awhile back, on the Pacific City site, there were human bones and artifacts found within that 31 area site. Yet, we were told that the number found was under that needed to officially warrant the developer to do much of anything different. Yet, how are we to really know?

In a case like this and Bolsa Chica Mesa, we have simply put the fox in charge of the hen house. Could greed, money and power have anything to do with the ultimate decision? I think we already know the answer to that. The trick is proving it, that is, for the ones that want it known.

We may never really know the truth, unless we could get those already found guilty and serving jail time for similar violations, to confess from their jail cells, that is, unless they have already “bought” their way out. To me, this whole thing makes as much sense as our Governor attempting to balance the State budget with blinders on and across the board, but without any real concern, awareness or reality as to what he’s really doing.

I have worked as a Planner before, and for some major developers, so I am not entirely unaware that this is nothing more than politics. This Fantasyland approach to the budget and/or development is once again catering to the special interests.

Therefore, I will be voting for Debbie Cook. Let’s take back our State so we can save it, starting right here in Huntington Beach.

John Sisker
Huntington Beach