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The Editor Rappahannock News
Dear Editor,
I would like to congratulate you on publishing the lively discussion on the suitability of the candidates in the forthcoming election of County Supervisors. I would like to also congratulate those writers who have questioned a potential supervisor’s ability to determine his or her constituent’s opinions on all issues as they come up during 1 his or her term in office. I doubt if any Supervisor will ask me how I would vote on any of these issues and I don’t especially care. I do expect a candidate to spell out his ] feelings on major issues before I; vote for him. If his feelings or l positions are written out, so much , the better. The R. L. E. P. i questionable would have been a useful vehicle for all the can-1 didates to have used to inform the , voters. My congratulations, also, to the four candidates with enough courage to answer R.L.E.P.’s questions, especially Mr. Latham, running unopposed, who had nothing to gain vote-wise. The undecided voters would feel much better about this election if all eight candidates had answered these questions, and R. L. E. P., therefore, had been able to publish the results. Hie five successful candidates will not just be representing their separate districts. Their votes will decide issues that will affect all of Rappahannock County. So much for Charles L. Smith’s complaint (Oct. 21st) that R. L. E. P. doesn’t represent him (they do not claim to) and his comment that their questions deserved to be ignored!
I was disturbed by two other letters in the same issue. Both carry thinly veiled accusations against un-named incumbents. John B. Summers infers that
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