To the editor:

Now the election frenzy has died, just wanted to thank you for writing that barn burner about candidate Angie Homola. I gotta confess, she almost had me leaning with that “representation for the many not the pockets of the few stuff” — you straightened me right out. You hit the nail, man, she’s a whiner and a troublemaker that can’t go along with the program. You saw through that victim stuff and told it like it is.

And all those letters to the editor crying low blow and journalistic this and that, can you believe 30 of them in two days. You’re right, they don’t deserve to be printed, just bury them on the Internet ’cause they’re biased and come only from her supporters wanting to muddy the water.

You also handled those protesters that picketed your office well, don’t stoop to talk and pin it on the Democrats, it’s a mere partisan issue, anyway.

Your article didn’t get bogged down in a bunch of irreverent details. The man said she was a slacker that couldn’t learn the program and they nailed her in black and white. The man’s not vengeful, that’s why not a word of her poor performance until 2½ years of employment, she was given every chance.

You told it like it is using no less than 20 quotes from her boss, and since he’s also running for office, that gives the man extra credibility. Why wade through that entire HR file when three quarters of it is stuff that she submitted. She’s not the one doing the judging here.

Your timing was impeccable, man. Had you printed this story when you got the HR file back in April, then the whole campaign would have been about this crap instead of the real issues. You dropped it like one of those intelligent bombs, two weeks before election.

But the real cracker was when you doubly nailed her the next issue with proof that she tried to get her HR file sealed. Can you believe that? You saw right through that business of the county telling her it would be destroyed after three years as some sort of settlement agreement.

Thanks for telling it like it is and by the way, some say a newspaper has tremendous influence matched by a responsibility for fairness, thoroughness and airing of disagreement. You shut ’em down on all three.

Dean Enell

Langley