In her letter, Glenna Miles once again takes the opportunity (June 30) to castigate a Conservative politician. She did it with Mel Arnold recently when I defended Mr. Arnold, and she is back again to chastise Scott Anderson.
Let us fact check some of the points she has made, and I will have to interject quotations from Anderson’s letter Restoring the balance June 14 in The Morning Star.
She asks whether Mr. Anderson is suggesting that people who do not pay taxes, of whatever economic class, not participate in public spaces.
The only one suggesting that is Ms. Miles. She also infers that Anderson is an exclusionist. This inference only brings forward an accusation that has no basis in anything Anderson has said or done in public life.
In terms of Anderson being disingenuous by supposedly suggesting taxpayers get to use the park, it has no foundation in anything that he has said or done in public life.
She says regarding the use of city parks, “We have to find a balance between the needs of the marginalized and the rights of the taxpayers (Anderson).” Rights of taxpayers? Not rights of all citizens regardless of their ability to pay.
Finding a balance to look after the needs of all is hardly a call for an exclusion to those less fortunate.
I could go on with many more examples, but people who read this want to digest something, and not have an overabundance of evidence jammed down their throats.
Anybody who reads what Anderson wrote, and the reply of Miles, will see for themselves that her critique is full of a political dogma that doesn’t include being governed by Conservative politicians at any level of government.
Dean Roosevelt
Vernon
