This is a reply to the letter by Bill Berkey (Record-Bee, March 18), in which he claims that unscrupulous people were trying desperately to put certain propositions on the June or November ballots and were not particular about the methods used to obtain the qualified signatures.
My wife and I were at that Wal-Mart at Clearlake and we spoke with that individual obtaining signatures. At no time did he attempt to pressure us into signing any of those petitions. He politely explained each one to us and we read each petition and decided on our own to sign or not sign any of those petitions.
Berkey either has his own agenda or is paranoid that voters will think for themselves and sign any or all of those petitions. It is this kind of paranoid ideology that is harmful, not a person who is asking voters to sign petitions that were formulated by concerned citizens of California.
L.M. Sweigert
Clearlake
