Whitefish should get its just deserts
Russell Crowder | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 5 months AGO
In regard to a recent Daily Inter Lake editorial on the Montana Supreme Court’s Whitefish “doughnut” ruling, I was extremely amused by the following statement: “Understandably, city officials say they hope they will be influential as the county moves forward with doughnut oversight, and they arguably should be.”
This from a local government controlled by a now “radicalized” Democrat Party that successfully resisted for years the pleas of county property owners, taxpayers and citizens that their “right to representation” be recognized.
Hey Whitefish, in regard to the doughnut areas surrounding your fair National Socialist Utopia, many of us agree that this should be the county’s response to such a ludicrous suggestion: “No Representation!” —Russell Crowder, Marion
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