Samples of Letters We've Sent

Letter to the PI

November 29, 2002

I don't know why your editorial board would imagine that Judge Erlick's ruling for Sound Transit just days before the election went unnoticed. Two weeks before the election your own poll showed the monorail leading comfortably and R-51 ahead in the Seattle Tacoma area. After reading that a judge has ruled that government is not accountable for the information it sends the voters, R-51 lost badly in King and Pierce County along with the rest of the State, and the monorail barely squeezed out a victory in transit friendly Seattle.

Your own poll also showed that accountability was the main factor for voters who were rejecting R-51. Then they have a judge tell them that Sound Transit is not accountable for the information they mailed to voters in 1996, and that they all should have gone down to the county elections office find out what "Resolution 75" meant. And when they read it they should have understood that Sound Transit can not only choose which projects to build with 'available funds', but they can keep taxing us until they build them all. Why don't we just go back to putting all the laws in Latin?

If we want to be able pass ballot measures that solve our real problems, and if we want to get rid of Tim Eyman, we should not be defending an agency that acts like we've given them a blank check. We should not be supporting the Sound Transit Board and its trolley to nowhere that is "deemed by the board to be most necessary and in the best interest of the RTA".

Ruth Korkowski,
Seattle