EDITOR:

As you may be aware I spoke at the Escanaba City Council meeting last Thursday regarding the cover up of taxpayer funds missing for nearly one year (later admitted by Councilman Blazier) and asked for the resignations from Mayor Tall and Councilman Blazier. It was not well received by both because as I stated the coverup favored the two incumbents (Tall and Blazier) going into the election on November 2nd. Councilman Blazier took time to respond by saying, in defense, the dollar amount was incorrect and they didn’t know who stole the taxpayer money.

Both points skirt the issue, as the most important thing is the lack of transparency regarding the investigation itself. Now with a large number of mail/absentee ballots already received, those voters should know they have until the day before the election to contact the city clerk’s office to retrieve their ballots and change their vote should they want to after this investigation has finally been brought into the light of day.

James Hellermann

Escanaba