To the Editor:

How fortunate we are in Haywood County to have three county commissioners running for reelection, commissioners who through the years have demonstrated such firm and forward-looking commitment to our county — Kirk Kirkpatrick, Mike Sorrells, and Bill Upton. 

The most Denny King, perpetual candidate and combatant, can find to fault then for is not paying off our construction loans fast enough. True, such action would lessen the interest we pay, but what citizens accelerate their mortgage payments if that means no money left for their children’s college tuition, their school clothes, or even the utilities.  Furthermore, King’s use of per capita figures supplied by the John Locke Society, a puppet of the Koch brothers, reflects a carelessness of judgment as these figures omit the taxes paid by out-of-state/county second-home owners. 

Would we want as a county commissioner someone who embraces statistics whose validity he admits he is unsure of? The answer is a categorical no.

Lynda Self

Waynesville