I’ve never before been a person motivated politically by anything other than my own private voting booth endeavors, but due to recent events both nationally and locally, I have found it imperative to be both informed and have myself heard.

What I see here in our little hamlet discourages, disheartens and disappoints me. How many of us realize we have had little to no change in Simi Valley leadership and its politicians in years?

I was amazed to discover that there hasn’t been a legitimate rival for any incumbent in the mayor’s office with serious backing from the populace in almost two decades.

It appears to have been a long string of City Council people who move their desk contents from one room to another. Instead of handing out keys to the city and throwing out the first pitch at Little League games, they could be improving our way of life.

I live on Sycamore, where entering and leaving my driveway is a futile, dangerous exercise during most times of the day. I can’t believe our city of 125,000-plus residents doesn’t actually have a synchronized traffic light system in this day and age. Are you kidding me?

I also find it odd that in a city notoriously tough on businesses, it’s perfectly hunky-dory for some random stranger to get a permit to sell fruit out of the back of a truck 10 feet away from my bedroom wall.

If the citizenry wanted to be that close to agricultural commerce, we’d all be sleeping in the produce section of the nearest grocery store.

All Simi Valleyites should become informed and ask themselves what these current politicians are thinking or not thinking, doing or not doing for them.

In these difficult and changing times, the same old people with the same old network with the same old ideas is a study in obvious mediocrity. This is where we live. We want this place to be the best it can be, not just tolerable by default.

New leadership plus new ideas equals a better Simi Valley.
Sue Grace Miller
Simi Valley