To the editor:
Now that Wilfred Martin and Paul Camping have had their say about the election results and what to do about them, it’s time the rest of us were heard. Mr. Martin has a history of finding fault with many things the City Council has done; but his suggestion that legal advice should be ignored in solving the problems is a poor one, and only serves as an unwarranted distraction. Similarly, the remarks by Paul Camping that Mrs. Milton should be sworn in as a councilor only because he and his wife and 456 other citizens “proudly voted” for her is irrelevant. Someone votes for losers in any election. She lost the election because there were 1,243 votes — 776 for Carol A. Pierson and 467 for Shane M. McDougall — the other two candidates for the same one-year term. Losing the election does not make Mrs. Milton a prime choice for an interim appointment.
Otherwise, it appears that someone in the city office should have been responsible for checking the eligibility of declared candidates before the election. How much trouble would it have been to do that for only nine candidates? Does anyone in the city office ever read the Annual Report they produce?
Carroll B. Knox
Caribou
