I am alarmed and offended that a group of individuals has formed a private club, given it an official-sounding name — the North Olympic Legislative Alliance — and announced that they plan to speak for me and all my neighbors [“NOLA Aims For One Voice, North Olympic Legislative Alliance Selects Its Officer,” PDN, Aug. 8].
First, we are fortunate in our elected representatives at the state and federal levels.
They are unusually responsive to us and pretty effective at looking after the North Olympic Peninsula’s interests.
We don’t need an additional layer between us and them.
Second, these don’t seem even to be “officials,” as the article calls them.
They are a bunch of business-club members, people who get a public paycheck, and just members of the Good Old Boys Club.
I am also concerned about the presence of conservative activist Kaj Ahlburg in a group that claims to be nonpartisan.
If I have to have a spokesperson, I want some say in who that spokesperson is, and what they say.
I would not choose any of the people named in this article to speak for me.
But because this is just a private club, there’s no way I can affect what words this peculiar group puts in my mouth, and there’s no way I can say they do not speak for me or my neighbors.
This group should be disbanded, or at least disowned, immediately — but how?
Barbara Moody,
Port Angeles