Letters

I’m very displeased and insulted on the inaccuracy of that editorial cartoon published in the LV Optic on Jan. 18. First and foremost, my heart goes out to the people who lost their lives in the Connecticut slaughter and other victims of violence done by the very few mentally unstable people. One person dead, is way too many people dead.   

This letter is intended to address two letters to the editor in the Optic on Jan. 18. I would like to praise Kim Reed-Deemer for her legitimate concerns regarding critical questions of regulations and enforcement having to do with gas and oil drilling in San Miguel County. I agree with her doubts about adequate environmental protections under the current state of affairs. In the long run, I wonder if the monetary gain to San Miguel County would be worth it to our youth and the wellbeing of every resident.

I am writing to correct a misapprehension currently being floated around Mora concerning my citizenship. Certain parties, trying to prejudice my candidacy for school board, are claiming that I am not a U.S. citizen.  

I was born in San Francisco, as was my father. He was an MIT physicist who worked for the AEC, including frequent visits to New Mexico at White Sands. My American father and English mother were married in Honolulu where his father, a bird colonel in the U.S. Army, was stationed at the time.

On Jan. 10 I attended the public input meeting at the County Commission regarding gas and oil drilling in San Miguel County. I left with the feeling that we’re not getting all the information about the actual scope of the situation.