DISQUS

I too read the article in the Breeze before reading this one. John Papadakis' desire to "retire" is qualified; the redevelopment agency's goal to put a chain restaurant in place of his taverna is not.

"Cleaning up crime" is, of course, laudable. Driving out the working-class people who help give SP its special character by making it impossible for them to afford to live here is not.

Hahn is, first and foremost, a politician. She knows how to deliver a death sentence couched in praise. She will speak glowingly of every local business steamrollered by her plans to turn this town into "another Santa Barbara."

If she wants a soulless, corporate town with plenty of shiny surface glitz and no soul, let her cross the Vincent Thomas and move eastward a couple of miles.

This is yet another indicator of the urgent need to be rid of Hahn.

She isn't going to stop until she has sucked the last drop of character out of our town and "re-imagined" it as a human petting-zoo for yuppies.

Tear down the ridiculous "Janice Hahn Memorial Park" at the end of the 110 and put a Marie Callender's there.

Papadakis Taverna is San Pedro. Janice Hahn is not.