Letters to the Editor: Feb. 19, 2025

Letters to the Editor published in the Feb. 19, 2025 issue of the Tomahawk Leader.

Representatives have betrayed us

In a democracy, the ones we elect to represent our interests and concerns have a great responsibility to do so. We entrust them to protect and defend our constitutional rights and to act accordingly. Sadly, we are witnessing a total failure on their part to do so.

This is not about ideology, red or blue parties, or conservatives versus liberals. This is about upholding the bedrock principles of our nation. Those speaking and voting in our names promoted and approved grossly incompetent, morally questionable and highly unqualified persons into positions of power for the administration's cabinet and into governmental department head positions. Instead of making our concerns their top priority, the majority elected representatives chose to rubber stamp all nominees demanded by the President under the guise of eliminating waste and fraud.

The end result could be total destruction of any and all government agencies or departments without any evidence of waste or fraud on the part of those agencies or departments. Their method of defund, depopulate and destroy any agency they do not like is akin to you requesting an energy audit of your home, being told that a couple of windows might need replacement, but then seeing your house literally bulldozed out of existence along with the destruction of all surrounding areas in the process.

I do not doubt that some agencies, governmental departments, House of Representatives and Senate seats have some questionable practices or expenditures, and those should be addressed, based on real evidence, piece by piece. Consequently, I expect transparent audits of those House and Senate seats along with any actions on supposed "deep state" actors. 

Instead of a moral high ground on the part of Congress, we get ridiculous bills targeting wolf populations and generating persecution of a handful of transgender persons in sports. That is disgusting and a gross waste of our taxpayer dollars. There are real, present-day concerns over a growing lack of medical providers, for protection of our earned Social Security and Medicare benefits, for affordable housing and day care centers, and for decent and safe public transportation systems to name only a few. Where are their bills for those real problems? 

Clearly, our elected representatives have betrayed us, the Constitution and the bedrock principles of this nation.

Diana C. Smith

Tomahawk

Not just their own opinion

I am very disappointed in our county board.

I was always of the belief that the members of the county board were elected by the people to represent them. Again we are at the point where the board is ready to sell Pine Crest and are totally ignoring the people that elected them.

We have asked that a referendum be put on the ballot that would let the residents of Lincoln County voice their opinion on the sale of Pine Crest. And again the board will not allow it. Apparently they feel that they alone are capable of making that decision.

Hopefully they will remember who they are and who they represent when they sit down at their next meeting and they represent "We the People" not just their own opinion.

Gordon Lovsletten

Tomahawk