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Reader supports Mick Hansen

by Moses LakeHarold Hochstatter
| December 9, 2011 5:00 AM

Will Rogers said, "It is not that I don't choose to run, I won't run no matter how badly the country needs a comedian at the time." If the colossal screw-ups at the irrigation district are ceasing to be funny, you can't fault their timing. Consider the beached whale caper with the dredge. They did it to themselves! Remember, the district controls the lake level. So, after dredging a hole just big enough to sink the dredge, they let the water out, leaving the dredge mired in its own muck. The dredge doesn't drive, it doesn't walk, it floats, or did; then presto, no lake.

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