The following YouTube video from Aug-Sep 2007, describes in Chairman Stewart’s own words how he apparently began to lose interest in controlling growth and the housing boom, in favor of a new hot-button, attention-getting issue: “My issue up until the immigration issue came up was controlling growth, trying to preserve more trees and open space, and socking it to the development community. . . The housing boom has not helped the average person. It’s hurt the average person. . . In July Supervisor John Stirrup introduced this resolution against illegal immigration in the County. I didn’t know about it . . . I supported [it] … and it took on a life of its own.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f8XDSKrNzs