Public Comment

I don’t understand Robert Reich’s endorsement of Laurie Capitelli for Mayor of Berkeley. I have always had the highest respect for Robert Reich, shaken his hand, read a book or two, and read whatever he had to say in newspaper letters or articles. I don’t recall disagreeing with whatever he had to say. He is a relative newcomer in Berkeley and clearly doesn’t have the feel of the place. Laurie Capitelli, a real estate man himself, represents all that is wrong in new development in our little piece of heaven, which is being sold out to real estate developers, at a high cost to Berkeley’s citizenry. Maybe Robert Reich would tell us what thinking went into his thinking on this endorsement. I suppose politicians, like happy marriages, are alike.