THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES

I'm really disappointed that "Bustamante Makes Most of Post in Davis'
Shadow" (Oct. 16), about the lieutenant governor's race, omitted any
serious mention of the excellent Green candidate, Donna Warren. You missed
your opportunity to raise issues that only Warren is talking about -- like
our failed war on drugs or the fact that California now has more black men
in jail than in college (thanks to the discriminatorily applied
three-strikes law). What did we get instead? A puff piece on the major
candidates' "personalities" and a slanted poll that deliberately omitted
all third-party candidates. Talk about dropping the ball!

Patrick Meighan, Los Angeles