Latest mailers on Somers hit new low

Mr. Dave Barnett and Mr. Ron Dotzauer — take me off your mailing list! Please stop filling my mailbox with your slanderous, self-serving lies about Dave Somers. Yes, we all know that you are mad. You want to get back at Dave for being a tree-hugging liberal who is standing against your slash-and-burn, quality-of-rural-life-be-damned development practices, I suppose. You invested in some property in hopes of lining your pockets with cash at the cost of countryside traffic snarls.

Dave said “no” to that idea. Now your flier says that Somers is “against new jobs.” That has to be the most ridiculous bit of trash advertising I’ve ever received in my mail. Seriously guys, how ignorant do you think the citizens of this county are? OK, don’t answer that because I’m guessing there isn’t much thinking involved with this ploy.

Dear Mr. Somers: Mr. Barnett and company asked me to write you a letter. They even gave me your e-mail address. Most kind of them. I live in a nice, semi-rural part of Snohomish County. I would be enormously grateful if you could ban for all eternity, dense cluster developments in rural areas where roads were built to accomodate one home every 40 acres or so.

Let’s keep high-density development contained to the urban areas. Oh, and if you can pass a law that keeps lying, solicitous, money-grubbing garbage disguised as political ads out of my mailbox, that would be grand.

John Smith