My only source of information regarding the Delta County Commission is the Daily Press. I’ve never attended a meeting. Never paid much attention to county politics at all until soon after the last election, when some of the sore losers began their plan B campaign against the three, elected, conservative commissioners. Their machinations didn’t pass my smell test. I’m not the only one in this county with a working nose.

It didn’t take me long to recognize some of their tactics because I closely watched similar tactics deployed at the national level, beginning in November 2016. Organize, endeavor to create an atmosphere of chaos, lending false credibility to illusions of scandal. And so, voila, we get childish disruptions at commission meetings and calls to the big boys (and girls) in Lansing to investigate, resulting in strongly worded accusations of “potentially illegal” activity.

I can’t claim to have predicted any of this but I am not surprised. The Big Left has a lot to teach the little local left.

I am a little surprised at the official silence from the Daily Press regarding the recent death threats directed at the three conservatives. For context, I invite readers to look up an editorial I’ll never forget. “Show it at the Ballot Box” in the April 11th, 2022 Daily Press condemns death threats directed at two black female lawmakers downstate. The column suggests that we conservatives are okay with threats directed at black females and that our “…socio-cultural understanding…” is centuries out of date. The current editorial silence suggests to me that the Daily Press is okay with threats directed towards local conservatives.

I’ve been thinking about this for some time. David Moyles spot-on letter of April 11th, 2024 prompted me to write this letter. Maybe this, in turn, will prompt the Daily Press to declare its position.

Kenneth LaMarche

Escanaba