Kudos to Pollison for running clean campaign

To the Editor: I would like to commend Kevin Pollison for being the only candidate in this week’s town council election who did not resort to dirty politicking with negative ads. Two weeks ago there was a letter printed here by Ralph Flaherty’s campaign manager, which essentially accused Mr. Pollison of stealing their lawn signs. Signs disappear for many reasons in this town: sometimes the men who cut the grass fail to return them to their place, sometimes business owners who have been hassled by the town about their own signs remove them out of spite. Do we really need to accuse someone who is president of his church of stealing? Let’s please give people the benefit of the doubt. As far as responding to all the lies and misstatements written in Jerry Murphy’s and Ralph Flaherty’s mailers, it is hard to know where to begin. I found it particularly ironic that Mr. Pollison was accused of leading the petition drive to give residents the choice of how to use the land at White Lake when Flaherty’s own campaign manager signed this petition himself. And what Mr. Murphy failed to include with his misstatemnents concerning the schools being as crowded in the past as they are now is that the high school was on split sessions then, something we are trying to avoid now. Again, kudos to Mr. Pollison, who managed to maintain his integrity by not striking back. Daryl Savage Sparta