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MOSQUITOES

| March 18, 2010 9:00 PM

I would like to respond to the letter by Janis Gilbert, communications manager for state Department of Ecology. Ms. Gilbert implied she was pleased, but surprised by the large turnout for the mosquito control permit hearing. The bureaucrats shouldn’t have been surprised or happy. They knew there would be hell to pay for their attempt to effectively stop the killing of adult mosquitoes in Eastern Washington and had scheduled the meeting in the fire hall at 1 p.m. on a work day. A room, that by law, can’t hold more than 60 people. That wasn’t an accident! By this strategy they hoped to downplay the opposition to their high-handed power grab.

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