MLIRD

Reader critiques guest editorial

Mr. Covey's editorial isn't just baseless claims and accusations, it's a charade to delay progress on Senate Bill 6512 until next year when he hopes to regain control and stop any reform. He can't accept the fact this bill takes away Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District's biased election control and puts taxpayers in control of their funding level. For him to promote corporate style elections for a taxpayer funded bureaucracy is absurd. He must be ignorant of the fact corporate shares have equal value and parcels don't.

One man-one vote is the law in this country because it takes away individual advantages and makes everyone equal. It takes a pompous attitude for Covey to assume the majority backs him on this, when they just elected Mick Hansen to make these changes.

He so conveniently forgets the MLIRD illegally paying for past directors health insurance premiums, ($32,000 per year) when calling fraudulent activity allegations baseless. It's quite ironic he accuses Hansen of knowingly directing their attorney to perform illegal activities without stating what they are.

If Covey and his band of vocal dissenters really care about the lake and not their own personal betterment as it appears, they have to face the fact the election is over and they lost. There will be another election and if Hansen doesn't produce any more results with his method than they did dredging last year, the voters can elect someone else. That would require him to accomplish almost nothing.

As the saying goes Mr. Covey, the proof is in the pudding and regardless of how much you spent on out-of-town experts to pat you and the crew on the back for last year's dredging, one miniscule duck pond being the total of your efforts is not enough pudding.

Richard Hansen

Moses Lake