Replace the City’s Millionaires’ Club With Real Political Parties

Just who is Steve Soboroff, and what has he actually done (“The Next Mayor of L.A.?” by Robin Abcarian, Dec. 13)? Have the voters learned nothing during the last seven years of our stealth mayor leading us virtually nowhere?

Some “reformers” curse our major political parties, but it’s the process involving the parties that prevents billionaires such as Al Checchi from insinuating a record of accomplishment while trying to buy a gubernatorial nomination with $40 million.

If political parties can select a Lincoln, a Roosevelt or a Truman, maybe L.A. would be better off with a partisan primary process that encourages a debate on philosophy and party, instead of a selection process limited to a millionaires’ club of businessmen, who consider profit and governance as one and the same.

Nick Antonicello

Venice

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When asked why his five children attend private school while he purports a passionate concern for public education, Soboroff replied that when his son, Jacob, (now 15) started school, that was a “nonissue.” Explaining why his much younger children also don’t attend public school, he says: “Now it’s about stability and fairness to the other four.”

Gag me.

Helene Kunkel

Los Angeles