Letters to the Editor

Editor:

By now, most residents have experienced the improvements at our entrances and read about the massive volumes of vehicles entering here daily. Let me add my two cents to this need for thoughts and attention looking for a remedy. Do you know that we already have an entrance to Leisure World that residents cannot use?

The GRF Maintenance Yard is situated in the southwest corner of our property, and located there is a pedestrian gate and a nearby automobile access to parking off of Westminster Avenue, likely used by employees and delivery.

There is plenty of room for an expanded residents entrance. Golden Rain Road terminates there and can be the header for an additional entrance to Leisure World, dumping all the traffic onto Golden Rain Road. This avoids sending traffic into Mutual 2.

I estimate about half the traffic will head north onto El Dorado. This may be our best opportunity to cover the drainage channel bisecting LW and even provide more road space.

Now people might wonder how that would impact the maintenance yard. Dare I suggest that there is plenty of accessible land in our 1.8-acre space right in the middle of Leisure World just waiting for its raison d’etre. It could take a couple of years to plan for a new resident gate,but it is obvious something must be done, so let’s get to work.

John Harper Mutual 2 Editor:

In response to Joan Rose’s letter (April 18), people might feel even less secure about the new security system when they realize that any car can gain access with anybody’s pass.

Lisa Benedict Mutual 2 Editor:

I’m so glad to be seeing more police enforcement in Leisure World. I live near a dangerous “t” intersection at St. Andrews and Oakmont. There is no stop/ yield on St. Andrews between the North Gate and the traffic stop at Interlachen. It is an absolute speedway.

My t-corner also has two crosswalks (north-south and east-west). Drivers consistently fail to yield to pedestrians. Will it take another tragic death before installing speed cushions here? Jan Goodwyn Mutual 7 Editor’s Note: The GRF Board approved the installation of three new speed cushions at its April 23 meeting for a cost of $32,382. Speed cushions will be installed at St. Andrews Drive and Oakmont Road,as well as El Dorado and Nassau drives, Golden Rain Road and Annandale Drive, and Thunderbird Drive and Monterey Road (see story, page 1). Editor: After reading Earick Ward’s letter (April 4), my first reaction was to explain to him that his lengthy (nine!) list of “hoaxes” have all been verified as factual. Some have been adjudicated, some by Trump himself, on camera, and by impeachment, only lacking conviction due to McConnell’s “leadership.”

Then I realized that a pointby- point refutation of this “disinformation” (the euphemism in common use by the media these days) would be very lengthy and most likely make no impression on his set of beliefs.

Lee Hoyt Mutual 11 Editor:

It is heartwarming to see so many responses to my April 4 letter; however, it is not unsurprising to have so many regurgitate the same leftist pablum that is looped on CNN, MSNBC and NPR. The Russian collusion hoax was a sham from the get-go. A bogus “dossier” was produced by the Clinton campaign (Google: John Durham report) where not one accusation against Donald Trump was substantiated.

Another writer derides Trump’s handling of “unaccompanied children” at the Southern border. The Biden Administration has lost track of 85,000 migrant children? Are they dead, sex trafficked? What about the two million “got aways” who’ve skirted the amnesty process? Or the 100,000 per year fentanyl deaths? If the Democrat Party had a positive platform to run on after an abysmal three years of “build back better,” they’d run on it. The economy is in shambles with inflation outpacing earnings. The young have no future prospect of home ownership. The old are living lean on fixed incomes, having to choose between gas, food or medicine. Our culture is ablaze with confusion. The world is on the precipice of World War III due to Joe Biden’s fecklessness in Afghanistan, Ukraine and Gaza, with many of his voters in Dearborn and Columbia University chanting “death to America.”

While hard-core leftists are putting party ahead of country, the American people are waking up to the disaster that is Joe Biden and the Democrat Party.

Let’s work together to Make America Great Again, again.

Earick Ward Mutual 7 Editor:

I was pleased to see the article in LW Weekly (April 25) explaining that SBPD is planning to increase its presence to improve the enforcement of golf cart traffic rules for the enhanced safety of all LW residents.

If there will be more police cruising the streets, then maybe they could also spend more time patrolling for speeders on the southern section of St. Andrews Drive between Golden Rain and St. Andrews Gate.

A recent LW Weekly article reported that 35% of cars in LW exceed the speed limit. I would bet the house that a disproportionate amount of those speeders are on St. Andrews Drive, the only street in LW with two lanes in each direction, which encourages many to drive faster. If you observe for any reasonable length of time the new speed monitor/ warning sign on the southern section of St. Andrews Drive, you will see that a majority of cars consistently exceed 25 mph. This makes south St. Andrews Drive possibly the most dangerous place in LW to cross a street or back out of a carport.

Let’s take advantage of this newly enhanced presence of SBPD and start resolving a very dangerous situation.

Mike Stabile Mutual 1 Editor:

I would like to express my thanks to the Golden Age Foundation for the celebration of centenarians in Leisure World.

We had the pleasure of a visit from Carl and Liz Kennedy to my father, Don Roswurm. They brought a beautiful bouquet, a delicious lunch for two and several gift cards.

They sat down and had a nice conversation and got to know my father, who was so happy and felt so special.

Again, I would like to extend my appreciation to the Kennedys and the Golden Age Foundation.

Linda Roswurm Mutual 7 Editor:

The article of April 25, “New Proposal Could Save GRF a Quarter Million Dollars” was vague. What was the actual proposal? When was the proposal presented to GRF Board and voted on by the GRF Board? What was spent to possibly save $250K?

Other than praises to certain GRF management and a word salad of creative writing, I saw no value. Maureen Ashley Mutual 2 Editor’s Note: The GRF management team, led by Executive Director Jessica Sedgwick, presented the proposal to the GRF Board in March. The phasing out of contracted security staff is the identified cost savings found by the team as specified in the original article. Editor: I’ve begun to hear references to Project 2025—A Plan To Take Back America. From my research, it is a transition plan designed for implementation during the first 180 days of the next conservative president’s term, presumably Donald Trump, should he be successful in the upcoming presidential election. Project 2025 has its origins in a book called “Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise,” published in April 2023 and edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation.

Reviews of Mandate for Leadership 2025 reveal a portrayal of the president as the personal embodiment of the peoples’ will and treats the law as an obstacle to conservative governance, promoting the consolidation of authority and the erosion of accountability. While neither Mr. Trump nor his campaign endorse the plan, some of his assertions, such as immunity from accountability, seem eerily aligned with the content of this book.

Other connections can be made between Mr. Trump’s promises in a second term as president and the book’s support for dismantling governmental agencies that currently ensure justice, security, environmental sustainability, and initiatives relative to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). There seem to be many indications he’s on board, whether Mr. Trump formally endorses Mandate for Leadership 2025 or not.

It would be helpful to know more about the Mandate for Leadership 2025 and its potential influence on the future of our country.

I wonder if a LW club might host a meeting, without hyperbole and persuasive rhetoric, to explore the facts.

Jeff Mulqueen Mutual 1