Letter: Rep. Scott helped divide Burns, Oregon

In a letter to the Bonner County Bee, Patrick Lynch of Sandpoint reminds voters of the role state Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, played during the divisive confrontation between armed occupiers of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge and the community of Burns, Ore., earlier this year:

“In my opinion, while Heather Scott has been in office, she has done nothing but tirelessly work at her politics of division, shrouded in her call for the people to wake up and stop the government from taking over their lives. I don’t buy it for a minute. What she has been effective in is what she helped accomplish in Burns, which is to divide a city, divide a county, and divide neighbors from neighbors. By her demonstrated support of the armed occupiers and their mission in Malheur County she is as guilty as the Bundys in tearing apart a great rural community. By her actions she was complicit in not listening to the community of Burns.” More here.

Question: What will it say about House District 1, if it re-elects state Rep. Heather Scott?