Grant County Prosecutor

I read with amusement and dismay the Monday & Tuesday Herald’s in-depth reporting of The Great Cover-Up of ‘97, regarding a 20 year-old Angus Lee’s frat house shenanigans.  Then there is the Great Cover-Up in the Prosecutor’s Officer of ‘08, over a non-incident between Judge Fitterer and a Quincy man, and whether said non-incident was properly referenced by the candidate Angus Lee, or whether it was part some vast conspiracy of judicial favoritism.  Interesting side-note: Mr. Lee was not prosecutor at the time of the non-incident, but let us not fret over that detail.  There is muck to be raked and mud must be flung, however trivial and in-consequential.

It is a great pity that we, the voters in Grant County, must choose between one candidate for prosecutor with no felony trial experience, but who has managed people in his (rather young) lifetime, and another candidate that has 10 years of (somewhat mediocre) trial experience, but absolutely zero management experience.  Neither candidate is qualified to be prosecutor, but there we have it- we live in a small pond, with no big fish to be found.

The picture that best sums up this whole tawdry affair is the one on Monday’s cover, showing a man holding his head in his hand while listening to the candidates’ debate.  I could almost hear the groans of despair and frustration.  Now that was some great reporting.

Eric Heikell

Moses Lake