Letter To The Editor

Frank Quintero's focus is dubious

I don't want to speak about the teacher's rallying against Assembly candidate and Glendale City Councilman Frank Quintero ("Teachers rally against Quintero," Saturday).

If teachers think vouchers are bad for our schools, that's their business.

I am writing because I take exception with Quintero's flip-flopping, again. At the 43rd Assembly Candidate's Forum last Thursday he was asked a yes-or-no question about supporting school vouchers. He paused, and said "yes." The very next day, he told the Glendale News-Press that he was "unequivocally against school vouchers." If he was unequivocally opposed, why didn't he answer "no" on Thursday?

Did he change his mind, or was it Quintero being Quintero?

In February, I raised the subject of Quintero's conduct while he was running for the City Council ("Politician's focus is not surprising," Mailbag, Feb. 8). During that run, he was asked many times if he was going to finish his term on the council or run for the state Assembly the first chance he got. He said his focus would be the council, and now he's running for the Assembly. It seems as though Quintero has made a habit of changing his stance.

Quintero fooled us once; shame on him. Fool us twice, shame on us.

He won't fool me twice.

AL ZINE

Montrose