Here is a letter to the editor that the Anchorage Daily News got:
Palin won't build the bridge, but she's sure willing to use it
Greetings from Nowhere, Alaska. I am a three-term Ketchikan City Council member. I am, and have always been, an opponent of the bridge, but Gov. Palin is taking a cheap shot.
The purpose of the bridge was not a quicker way to the airport (which actually it wouldn't be) but a way to reach developable land. Ketchikan is 30 miles long and 4 blocks deep -- jammed between the Pacific and mountains. A large hydro project will come on-line in two years but there are very few places suitable to build additional businesses or industry on this island.
The bridge was to open up a large expanse of flat land for development on Gravina Island. It was not a project created so greedy buffoons could drive to the airport. Gov. Palin knows this but continues to trot Ketchikan out for national ridicule.
What does it say about a leader who is willing to ridicule constituents to make political points?
-- Marty West
Ketchikan
Seems it is not just the media and left wing bloggers that Sarah Palin has to watch out for.
Comments welcome,
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