Smokescreen?

Editor,

Talk about a smokescreen! Paul Fielder’s claim that he will reduce smoky air if elected county commissioner is pretty easy to see through.

Paul may be forgetting that the responsibilities and authority of a county commissioner do not include managing our public lands. A good county commissioner is focused on running county government efficiently and based, not on political ideology, but on being respectful and responsive to the needs and preferences of county residents.

Both Paul and Jennifer have been working hard to make political hay off a prescribed burn from a few years ago that turned out to be poorly timed. But the idea that Paul can deliver clear skies as a commissioner has little connection to either reality, or the fact that big fires are generally the product of drought and wind.

Doug Ferrell,

Trout Creek