LETTERS

FROM PAGE 12 e goal and e ect are to reduce homelessness IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. ey will only pay to compassionately dump the problem on someone else’s doorstep.

Dougco is not only one of the richest counties in Colorado, it’s one of the richest in the world, but they won’t actually pay to house or help in their county.

See, they’ve made a choice, and unless you live and are safely housed there, screw you, but compassionately.

Roger Brisnehan, Westminster

is run day-to-day by the professional city sta , rather than by that tranche of City Council sharing his ideology. He feels that sta numbers and their salaries are `bloated’, without giving any numerical basis or remedies for his opinion. He appears to have misinterpreted the structure of city government, where the council sets the strategic direction for city sta to follow. But then, he considers today’s council `too kind, gentle, accommodating’. How awful, indeed, that this body fails to be the opposite: unkind, brutal, and unobliging to We the People.

Is this what we want?

Readers who follow my frequent letters may have noted that I rarely identify by name those I consider responsible for abusing the public trust.

On this occasion, I must depart from the habit.

Bruce Baker, running to retain his Westminster City Council seat, has made quite clear (letters, July 6) his vision of what Westminster should and should not be. Having won his seat largely by promising to reduce water rates to irresponsibly low levels, given our increasingly drying climate, he faults his co-councilors for not driving rates down ad in nitum. Given that his ample property in the far north of town features close to half an acre of waterloving grass, his obsession with reducing water rates is understandable and highly personal but not helpful in today’s climate vectors.

He is also annoyed that Westminster