Voting, assessments and milfoil make strange politics

As a registered voter I found our last election to be an ongoing comedy when I voted. I was given two ballets, one Democratic and one Republican, with instructions that I could only vote on one ballet and the other unmarked ballet was to be put in a separate pile with the ballet I marked on being put into the ballet box. What if I wanted to vote for someone or something on the ballet I was not using? Too bad for me.

Being originally from California — "where is Jarvis Gain when we need them?" — it seems to me that if a few of our politicos wanted to really make a statement and increase their popularity with all the property tax-paying voters they would come up with a solution, like Prop 13 in California, to address these ridiculous tax assessments. At least if I were a politico that is what I would be doing then I wouldn't have to campaign so hard to get re-elected.

Now that we are finally addressing the milfoil issue after months and months of meetings and bureaucratic approvals there is a group that wants to stop the killing of the milfoil. Where were these people during all of the previous meetings and discussions? Do they use the water? Do they have waterfront property? Do they have boats?

Or are they the typical organic protesters who are getting tired of saving the whales and other things that need to be protested and have moved on to our milfoil issues?

LEN GOLDING

Sagle