Last week’s issue was interesting

Last week’s issue was interesting

Dear Editor,

Your newspapers always are interesting, but last week particularly so.

We learned in Friday’s edition that county commissioners again hope voters will approve a 4 percent county lodging tax in January, two years after a similar proposal failed. It was outlined clearly what the taxes might be used to address, and who would pay. Causes are just and worthy.

However, it comes to mind that about a year ago, I asked the commissioners, in writing and in person, to repair the county road that splits my property. I always have admired the tact with which Commissioner Beau Burleson told me he really would love to help me, but he hoped I understood, it’s a money issue, and the county simply couldn’t prioritize it. Really nice and all. Man, that’s some good politickin’, I thought. So I hope the commissioners can appreciate my position that you get two thumbs-up votes from my household on this issue if my road is fixed before the vote, but if not, we really would love to help you, but we hope you understand, it’s a money issue, and we simply can’t prioritize it.

Also, to staff writer Lynn Adams, on the same story, there is nothing ‘meager’ — your word, not attributed, not quoted — about a 4 percent tax of any sort, no matter who pays it. If these costs were meager, this issue might have passed in 2022 (and Sallisaw might have federally underwritten public tornado shelters, for that matter). For this seeping editorialization into a significant news story about new taxation in a place where new-taxation proposals go to die, you are sentenced to 10 lashings with the wettest noodle you can find. Self-imposed, of course.

And finally, Dan George’s full-page advertisement in last Wednesday’s edition, about someone stealing his political signs, was worth an entire year’s subscription on its own. Couldn’t have said it better myself, Dan.

DAVID MAYO

SALLISAW