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Thursday, Jan. 19, Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 5
LETTERS, continued from page
Fire 17 responds
Editor, the Journal,
Mason County Fire District No. 17,
doing business as Hama Hama Fire, de-
nounces the article that was printed in
last 'week’s Shelton—Mason County J our—
nal. The opinions shared were those of
individuals and are not the opinions of
our department. Such statements have
no place in public service and have no
benefit to anyone. We promise to strive
to do better with any and allfilture
communications.
We want to ensure the constituents of V
the local fire diStriCts, including but not
limited to Mason 17, Hoodsport Fire and
and Brinnon Fire, that if you need
any of us, or all of us, we will be there!
Signed this 16th day of January
in a special meeting of the Board of
Commissioners of Mason County Fire
Protection District 17.
Gary J anisch, board chair
Pat O’Brien, commissioner
Joel Carlson, commissioner
Nadine Brown, fire chief
Dear Mr. Duenkel,
Editor, the Journal,
Mr. Steve Duenkel ,
Auditor, Mason County Washington
PO. Box 400 I
Shelton, WA ‘
Dear Mr. Duenkel, .
Congratulations on being elected
and sworn in as auditor for Mason
County, washington. y,
For transparency sake, would like
to ask how you will use your office to
resolve the conundrum of your elec- ,
tion within a process whose legitimacy
you so thoroughly and unswervingly
questioned and disparaged during your
campaign?
Since you ran on'a platform of “elec—
tion integrity,” what are your goals, ob-
jectives and timeline to identify and re—
solve any additional “voter anomalies”
in the existing voter registration roles
as identified in the Mason County Voter
q Journal Letter PoliGY' . b
The Journal encourages original letters tolthe‘editorof local interest.
Diverse‘ahd yaried opinionsare
Welcomed. wewill netfipublis‘tisiettfers that are deemediibebus or
scurrilous in nature. All letters must be
signed‘and include thei’iwrit‘e‘r's name,
physicalrtéssland‘daytime phane nunjber,:whielrigiyillne
for verification purposes only. All letters are subjectio editing for
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"' dicta,,editprmasoncountypom is preferred. Elease
dognatfisubmitletters via the Journal’s
‘You may also drop it‘off at W. Cota"St., o'r mail it to
PO”; Box 430, Shelton, WA 98584,.
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websue forms.
Due to time constraints, the publication of handwritten or‘typed letters
may be del‘ayedis
Research Project’s “Voter Anomaly”
report? How do you plan to keep them
from reoccurring? How often will you
inform the voters of Mason County of
your efiorts to achieve them? Will you
continue to use the questionable ser-
vices and results of the Mason County
Voter Research Project, some other
authorized election integrity group or
initiate your own from within the Audi-
tor’s Ofi‘ice?
you deign to respond to this letter,
would request that you also submit
your response to the Shelton—Mason
County Journal for publication in its
“Letters to Editor” as am also doing.
IMHO, a nonresponse would consti-
tute an admission that all your elec-
tion integrity bravado wasjust that
bravado. .
Respectfully yours,
Bill Pfender
Shelton
TO? the Promised Land
Editor, the J carnal,
Though we hear it said, “Don’t talk
I politics or religion,” I’m pleased the
Journal allows as readers to talk poli—
tics and religion herein.
r Last December, I submitted a letter
titled “Blame the Bible,” about the Bible
being homophobic. I quoted verses to
support my claim that the Bible actu—
ally says to “kill those men who slept
with other men as with a woman.”
Yeah. Kill. And that hideous narrative
remains rampant among homophobes
today.Then last week, Manna Hau-
gen from Belfair mentioned my name,
but her titled “Good Bible news” letter
had nothing to do with my substanti-
ated letter in reply seemingly to bolster
the Bible, contrarily, as a good book
instead. '
She submitted a biblical mention
about God getting Israelisout of slav-
cry, and with divine direction he com-
missioned Moses to lead his estimated
million people out of Egypt through *
a bleak landscape between there and
Canaan, a journey which apparently
took “40 years” to reach the so-called
Promised Land, a distance of 265 miles.
40 years?
Now I always thought that that was
an;,exaggeration, if ya wanna know
theitruth, but the Bible then points to
disobedience for the wandering delay.
Apparently, God disapproves of them
being obediently enslaved in Egypt, but
then, aslthe story goes, is mad at them
for being disobedient to him. Can you
say double standard?
Anyway, disobedience aside, at a
speed of 2.8 mph, (my average walking
speed as a 71—year-old man) it seems to
me to be an unbelievably incredulous
story, so I went to Google maps and put
in the coordinates. Manna, I typed in
Egypt to Jerusalem and found out that
if I walked it, it would take me six to 10
days, and were there cars back then,
it’s only an eight-hour drive-Not too
arduous either way. ,
Well, OK, anyway, if true, I’m think-
ing: With million humans wander-
ing aimlessly, I would expect there’d be
millions of artifacts evidencing them
having once been there, oh, like camp—
sites, cooking utensils, animal bones,
broken sandals, altars and other stuff
laying dense with remnants. has not
been for the lack of trying, instead, doz—
. ens of capable archaeological surveys
of the Sinai Peninsula have resulted
in nonexistent nothings for bolstering
believability. I’m sorry Manna, believe
what you will, but I’ve more trust in
the promises of Gougle to lead me to a
promised land than a Bible-God who
demands obedience along the way.
Darrell Barker
Shelton
, Democracy
in action?
Editor, the Journal,
The Jan. 12th edition of the Shelton- '
Mason County Journal printed some
letters stating the House conduct that
resulted in McCarthy being elected
speaker was an example of healthy de-
bate and democracy in action. I think
they missed the point, however.
WhatI witnessed was a 2o-person
extremist minority completely dominate
the remaining GOP majOrity, most
of whom like to call themselves moder-
ates. That can onlymean those latter
members are either'(a) so politically in-
ept they could not overcome an extrem-
ist minority, or (b) are themselves not
truly moderate at all, and just want to
falsely claim they are. really daesn’t
matter which, because either way we
now know the party controlling the
House of Representatives is completely
under the control of hyper-partisan
extremists.
Most voters value honestand factual
debate among different elected par~
ties. Each party may be grounded in its
own particular values, but each should
seek solutions to real problems. We can
only be appalled at the agenda that tri—
umphed last week.
. Stan Horton
Shelton