Agoura Hills needs new choices

It's election time in Agoura Hills. And once again we're faced with the same-old, same-old. Dan Kuperberg is running again, and holding his hand and riding his coattails is John Edelston.

King Kuperberg has run roughshod over the citizens of Agoura Hills for years and gotten away with it because there is still enough left of the old-line voter base in Old Agoura and Fountainwood to stay in power.

Edelston, a hopeful secondtermer who personally promised upon election the first time around that he would be a free and independent thinker void of outside pressure and influence, allowed himself within three days of election to be poisoned and turned by none other than Kuperberg. Now they hold hands and vote together and will gleefully campaign together for reelection.

What is it going to take for voters in Agoura Hills to wake up?

It doesn't take much effort to see how incompetent, inept and careless the incumbents are and have been. They consistently offer false hope and promises, money and effort to residents of Old Agoura on the Heschel issue, all the time knowing that it is now out of their hands- as it always was- as to what will happen in their backyards. The Los Angeles supervisors will decide their fate, not Agoura Hills council members.

Then we have Agoura Village, a great dream wrought with unfixable problems. Kuperberg and Edelston are aware of the problems with the plan and helped spend millions of dollars on plans and studies without our knowledge and then approved it in a public dog-and-pony show meant to con us into believing that they were concerned with citizen input and concerns.

We waited 23 years for the Kanan bridge to be fixed, and Agoura Village will undo the relief it has brought in one fell swoop. They have not denied that the plan adjusts height restrictions to mountain-blocking heights, calls for the confiscation of personal property through eminent domain, does not have enough parking and creates unfixable traffic congestion, but the plan forges onward.

Start paying attention, voters, and elect someone with genuine concern for what is best for Agoura Hills. Dan Crisafulli Agoura Hills