Editor,

Rick Jore has been ordered to cover Ms. Anita Big Spring's legal costs of $15,663.56 regarding the legal fees incurred during the recount of House District 12 votes. He has informed her and everyone else, that he has no intention of paying this fee.

This is a result of our judicial system and nothing else. I am certain had the judgment gone the other way and Jeanne Windham had been ordered to pay, she would do so with dignity and with the utmost respect for the judicial system. And if she sees the need for a change of the law, she will work diligently and ethically for that change.

The fact that is easily overlooked is that Representative Jeanne Windham's attorney, Mike Meloy, proposed to Jore's attorney, Duncan Scott, that neither party seek attorney's fees from the other. Jore's attorney refused, knowing that Jore wasn't paying a dime. And Jore, for some reason, remains silent regarding his knowledge of his attorney's refusal.

Assuming Jore knew, he insisted on his legal (and moral?) right to collect attorneys fees (which were paid by the Republican and Constitutional party) from Representative Jeanne Windham. Had you won, Mr. Jore, would you be supporting the position that payment of fees incurred in this situation were an "injustice"?

Lora J. Hughes

Arlee