Re: Friday’s article “Music fest to rock Polo Fields.” I live a few blocks from the Polo Fields, and I can tell you that after major events we can expect people urinating, yelling and littering in front of our houses. These people also take up parking spaces in our neighborhood and even squeeze into spaces so small that they end up blocking driveways. And yes, I live beyond 250 feet of the Polo Fields, and I am able to hear the noise from there.

Recreation and Park says, “We conducted community outreach to make sure the locals in the area are OK with it, and they are.” I learned about this for the first time reading the paper. I was never consulted and neither were any of my neighbors. Who did they talk to? The homeless living in the park? Last time I checked, this was a residential neighborhood. Find somewhere else to hold your concerts. Not in my backyard.

Allan Wong

San Francisco

Spitzer travail fallout

New York Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer should be congratulated for multitasking the world’s oldest profession with the world’s second oldest profession! If this were the Clinton administration, it would be a résumé enhancement. No doubt our senators and representatives will fly to his defense as they did when Clinton was in trouble.

James Keefer

San Francisco

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s problem leaves us with a big unanswered question. Will the proverbial bus that Spitzer will be thrown under by Sen. Hillary Clinton be driven by an undocumented immigrant with a valid driver’s license?

Ed Gleason

San Francisco

Why would Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton ever consider Sen. Barack Obama as her running mate when New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is available?

Richard Beleson

San Francisco

Clinton endorses McCain?

Several times since Friday I have seen on television a clip of Sen. Hillary Clinton saying the following: “I think that it is imperative that we show we have crossed that ready-to-be commander-in-chief threshold. I believe that I have, and certainly Sen. McCain has. And you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy.”

The way I read this, Hillary is endorsing Sen. McCain, as only for him is the word “certainly” applied.

This California-registered decline-to-state voter requested a Democratic ballot in the February primary and voted for Obama, thinking for a long time that he was ready. I’ll stick with Obama in the general election, but if the Democrats choose Clinton instead, I’ll have to take her word that she is not for certain ready but for certain McCain is. After all, she knows herself better than anyone else knows her, doesn’t she?

Jim DiCarlo

San Francisco

Lantos seat needs debate

There is a special election coming up to fill the remaining term of the late Rep. Tom Lantos. There are five candidates on the ballot — two Democrats, two Republicans and a Green. Only one of these candidates, Jackie Speier, has a familiar name. Jackie is a professional politician. She is skilled in corporate fundraising and is friends with the power structure of the Democratic Party. But many voters want a change, something new.

It is important that this special election get the information out to the voters about what these candidates plan to do if they are elected. The winner of the special election will be able to put “incumbent” after their name in the general election, and incumbents usually get re-elected.

The turnout for this special election is expected to be very light. Those few who vote really need to know the candidates to choose the best one. We need to have debates between all the candidates in the district, in both in San Mateo County and San Francisco.

Patricia Gray

Burlingame

Gay-marriage ban, morality

I found the March 7 Viewpoints article on gay marriage disturbing (“Gay-marriage ban teeters on key justices”). It would be a mistake to repeal the ban on gay marriage. State Superior Court justices, along with the general populace, realize gay partners are going to have sex together. However, the California ban on gay marriage upholds the Christian morality that deems homosexual activity as gravely disordered. Supporters of gay marriage seem to care little that they are condoning the legalization of sinful transgressions.

Homosexuals need and deserve our love and respect, not our acceptance of a same-sex debasement of the very essence of society, which is man-woman marriage and family. Civil laws make a just and necessary distinction when they recognize the unique role the institution of marriage has in society. By rescinding the ban on same-sex marriage, our California justices will reduce this institution to nothing more than one of many alternative kinds of voluntary relationships.

Jane L. Sears

Burlingame