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Description of Welsch ‘begs to be challenged’
To the editor:
David Linzee’s review of the U. City mayoral debate [“U. City voters won’t swing to the right, even in a tight economy”] seemed, for the most part, a fair description of the discussion.
But (and of course there is one) your description of Welsch as “the candidate who seemed most enthusiastic about preserving our amenities and least able to make hard choices” begs to be challenged. The facts make that easy. Crow and Wagner, both on city council during the last two years while our financial problems ballooned, have made absolutely no significant or hard choices on finance. And both, as you heard at the debate, proposed using our cash reserves to finance our present and future deficit, and that for operating expenses.
This would seem poor business practice, all the more so in view of the anticipated duration of this recession.
David S. Olander
University City
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