In response to your June 11 story on Supervisor Chris Daly’s proposal to turn the San Francisco Zoo into a rescue center (“Today’s Newsmakers”), leave it to Chris Daly, San Francisco’s chief civic ignoramus, to come up with another bad idea to destroy a San Francisco institution. I have been a member of the San Francisco Zoo for more than 10 years and have seen some real improvements in that time.

The zoo does have problems that need to be fixed, but that can be accomplished with new management. A new zoo director, with an established background in animal care and zoo management, is what is needed.

Let’s not let Chris Daly ruin another San Francisco institution. Give a new zoo director a chance to turn things around.

E.F. Sullivan

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Get priorities straight

Will common sense ever prevail over extreme “progressive” ideology at San Francisco City Hall?

The Board of Supervisors again failed to fund the Tenderloin community court (“Tenderloin court plan hits wall,” June 11). Then we see that they plan to load the November ballot with their predicable pet issues (“Fall ballot filling up with city measures,” June 11).

Chris Daly continues his jihad against housing providers and property owners. Aaron Peskin and Jake McGoldrick want to raise taxes on the sale of homes even though Deputy City Controller Monique Zmuda said last month, “We don’t have a revenue problem — our revenue is strong. Even though the economy’s been good, our expenditures are growing at a faster rate than our revenues.”

The mayor has added an additional $500 million to the already bloated $6 billion budget, yet claims to be more than $300 million short.

Nevertheless, he found money to add several highly paid employees to his pet environmental projects.

The voters will have the opportunity to elect new supervisors this November.

Hopefully they will be experienced managers with common sense, not ideologists.

Howard Epstein

Chairman, San Francisco Republican Party

San Francisco

The Community Justice Center is a fantastic idea and there is no reason for Supervisor Daly to hold up funds for this project merely because of his personal and professional animosity with Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Supervisor Daly’s district has rampant problems with crime, drugs, etc., and the CJC would help remedy that.

Christian P. Foote

San Francisco

Obama still an unknown

Paul Burton’s letter published June 11, “Agent of Change,” was right on. No one has done any homework on this virtual unknown from Illinois, Barack Obama.

If anyone read his books, they would see why he sat in that church for 20 years and felt right at home. The media should be on this garbage strongly, but where are they?

Not one word from anyone — what ever happened to truth?

Joseph Locasto

San Mateo

Kids need to be in school

Pray tell, what in the world was school Superintendent Carlos Garcia thinking in discussing the “rights to an education” of students who have been truant more than 50 days (“Parents of truant kids hauled to court,” June 11)?

Duh, Carlos. Kids have a duty to be in school; it’s a requirement, legally. Punish the parents, punish the kids themselves, but don’t sell us a bill of goods that “we as a society need to stand up for [students’] rights” when they can’t be bothered to show up.

Jeff Zorn

San Francisco

McCain campaign needs help

If it were against the law to commit suicide in public, John McCain’s campaign would be over. The man cannot speak, cannot think on his feet, he is short, has little hair and looks like he needs directions.

Cindy is no help, either. Few have heard her voice. America likes candidates’ wives who can talk, even if they’re not good at it.

Jackie Kennedy was always nervous and out of breath, but everybody loved her. She tried.

The only way McCain is going to win is if we dig up more evil friends of Obama or convince America that he is a bed-wetter. The major media is so ga-ga over the guy and we can only hope they go down in flames hand-in-hand. McCain needs to start some good Obama rumors.

The bed-wetter bit is only good for a week.

Adrian Vance

Lakeport

Some people like Hillary

I am outraged that you place such utterly stupid and nonsensical letters like the letter from Daniel Woodhead (“Not all women like Hillary,” June 10) about Hillary.

Shame on him, shame on you.

Anthony Klinger

San Francisco

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