Hold officials accountable
Who are the small-minded, fiscally ignorant nitpickers who want the bus benches removed? Removed! Not re-painted, removed! At a time when families are going to the food bank in order to eat, these people in city government want to squander $87,000 on benches without backs. What a waste! What a moral crime!
Why? Because their precious little sensibilities are offended by the advertising on the bench backs. Offended by advertising? Have they driven down Sprague Avenue lately? Up Division? All you see is advertising. You have to look real hard to even see a bus bench to be offended by.
Do they have any idea of who the bus patrons are? I have seen elderly men and women waiting for a bus and now they will be required to sit on a bench without a back to lean against
Do those oblivious people realize the jobs lost, the jobs going unfilled if the advertising is discontinued, the ramifications of their half-witted decisions in this economy?
Not everyone forgets transgressions before election time. Some people will remember this ethical wrongdoing. What lunacy!
Jeanne Thompson
Spokane Valley