Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

I am responding to Dick Claar’s letter to the editor. Our county commissioners are elected by the people to represent the people of Crook County.

Please read that, picturing the entire county. I resent that he is so critical of the Constitutional Representation of our commissioners.

I am reminded of the old saying that a lamb, a lion and a wolf sit down to decide what is for dinner. In a democracy the lamb is sure to be dinner, but in a constitutional representative government the lamb is protected from being dinner.

Our Founding Fathers set up our government as a Representative Republic with a written constitution because they knew that democracy would lead to mob rule. I don’t want to be mobbed into the dump district so I appreciate our commissioners standing up for constitutional government.

I note that Dick remembered the survey, which was favored by the towns of Moorcroft and Sundance, but not by the rest of the county citizens. He totally neglects to mention that the commissioners paid for a feasibility study, which showed that it was not feasible to set up a county waste district in that it would cost too much for the small population of the county.

He is correct in that the landowners are in the minority, but fails to mention they would pay the majority of the taxes.

Kudos to our Crook County Commissioners, who have a broader view of the county than Dick Claar!

Judy McCullough