Money gets to talk

Regarding Al French’s defense of Todd Mielke’s testimony before the Legislature on Senate Bill 6154, which would require citizens to know the Washington annotated code and have to pay $400 to appeal any decision made by government officials:

I think it would be more to the point that city and county officials be required to quote the section of code that supports their decisions. I know there were many times when I was on the Spokane County Planning Commission when the county commissioners completely disregarded the recommendations of the Planning Commission and the code. On appeal, the county was regularly found at fault because they were more concerned with providing favors to their campaign supporters than following any regulations.

You will also note that neither French nor Mielke opposed the requirement that citizens must pay $400 to question the poor decisions that are made, proving once again that only those with money get to talk.

Lindell Haggin

Spokane