The other side of the story

Editor:

 True Pearce was elected by a large majority of the voters in Washington County. The promise he made was that he would follow the law and give council and prosecute according to the law and that is exactly what he is doing. Those that are upset about his advice and direction are those that are used to doing things their way, which if it is not according to the law, so what.  

 The information provided by Dylan Brown and Ron Jeager in the June 26 Weiser Signal American was an effort to smear True Pearce for doing what he was elected to do. The planning and zoning commission is to gather information so the commissioners can make the final decision on land use issues. They are not supposed to tell the commissioners to do what they want. Ron Yeager said, the citizens in the county have property rights if the P&Z gives them property rights. They have completely overstepped their authority. They feel like the P&Z runs the county and the commissioners are to do what they are told. I don’t know about you but I didn’t elect the P&Z to make the rules and code for the county. The P&Z commissioners are made up mostly of people that benefit from the decisions they make. Our P&Z administrator told several people a couple weeks ago that she was not giving out any more building permits until the commissioners did want they wanted. Are the employees and appointed committee supposed to be telling the employer what to do? Commissioners Harberd and Marvin are letting them do this. They have been advised by the Prosecutor True Peace to correct this bad behavior and they have not, they did what P&Z demanded. The problem we have right now is that our county commissioners are not running the county, the P&Z is. All the bad mouthing and slander aimed at True Pearce is merely a group of people that don’t want to follow the law and are throwing a fit. 

Kirk Chandler

Weiser, Idaho