What? Again?! When will the greedy learn that sooner or later their veil will be lifted to reveal the real person behind that $500 suit? [“So Cal water-agency board directors, wife plead not guilty to felony corruption charges,” Aug. 15]
As I had stated in the past, and how the leaders of Bell, California have learned, Baron Acton [John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton] (1834-1902) said it best: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.”
Look around you and see how the wisdom of those words fits so many of our esteemed people in power. Br-r-r-r-r-r. I’m glad I’m “just a little petunia in an onion patch.”
Vivian Nelson
Long Beach
