Why pursue the case?
The fact that Judy McManus screwed up in the accounting records of the collection of delinquent taxes is a minor issue. She collected a significant amount of unpaid taxes and after $100,000 worth of county audits it is clear she did not embezzle or even try to embezzle any of that money.
Did the county prosecutor pursue this case because he wasted so much county taxpayers' money paying for three audits? Why did Garfield Township board members not want to pursue this issue? Why is Grand Traverse County spending so much money pursuing such an insignificant case? Isn't there anything important for the county prosecutor to do?
Stu Saints
Traverse City
Check the facts
Can you believe it? The same guys who got us into this financial mess are still running the county. Obama chose those Wall Street heads for their experience. Yeah, sure -- experienced in getting Uncle Sam (i.e. taxpayers) to cover their losses. But investment benefits come to them.
Are foreclosures being stopped or slowed? No. Jamie Diamond, head of J.P. Morgan, said, "This was the best year ever!" Those people have no interest in helping folks keep their homes because they wrote the mortgages to fail and foreclose.
Formerly, there were 12 big banks; now there are only four. That's concentration of power! Taxpayers are still paying for the old savings and loan crisis, and bankers' big bonuses are back.
These facts and more details can be learned from Bill Moyers' Saturday, Oct. 10, program. Call it up on your computer.
Marian Gyr
Empire
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