Years Of Inefficiency And Pandering

To the Editor:

RE: “Departing Officials Took More Than 200 Years Worth Of Experience With Them” [Newtown Bee, July 11, 2008].

They took 200 years of pensions and benefits with them for many years of inefficiency and pandering and almost as many for aiding and abetting Herb Rosenthal in his own years of inefficiency. They knew their gravy train was over and they bailed out!

Of course there were some honest employees who retired as the normal course of life would have it, and I do not intend to be lumping them all together with that great majority as John Voket so craftily did in the July 11 edition of The Bee, to which we continue to subscribe.

Joe Borst has a few problems. Number one, he’s honest. He believes in an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work. What a novel concept!

His second problem is that under the long reign of Herb Rosenthal, the town has managed to assume an almost insurmountable debt which Joe’s detractors keep trying to lay at his door. When the voters finally voted Herb out of office, he managed to stay on. He has attempted to thwart Joe’s administration by whatever means of cunningness available to him in his hopefully feeble attempt to regain his self-perceived birth-righted office.

As a current Newtown taxpayer I am grateful to have Joe Borst in there to clean up the mess while continually demonstrating that he has the best interests of Newtown’s residents at heart.

Bill Butler

734 Stonewall Jackson Drive, Conroe, Texas               July 28, 2008