Audie Bock

* Re "Assembly's Lone Green Switches to Independent," Oct. 28: It is with both dismay and anger that I write this letter regarding Assemblywoman Audie Bock's quitting the Green Party to seek reelection as an independent. She is an embarrassment to third-party candidates like myself and to the ideals for which third parties stand.

As a Libertarian currently running for state Assembly against two-term incumbent Democrat Howard Wayne, who raised over a million dollars in contributions in his successful 1998 bid, I took pride and found some hope in seeing a third-party candidate (albeit Green) elected to the Legislature in 1998. By switching parties, Bock has shown her greed, not Green, side and has betrayed the ideals of her party--something I just can't fathom (and, as a result, I probably will never get elected).    

DENNIS TRIGLIA
San Diego