Apr 21, 2014 By James Garletz 3 min read

Fellow citizens, it is my desire to weigh in on the issue of the Fayette County Prison.

For many months, I have been reading one false letter to the editor after another. Not only are these letters false, they are all designed to cater to the need for the re-election of one female county commissioner.

Ask yourself, why is she so opposed to a new prison? It is not for reasons of economics. If economics were here guide, she would understand that it is either pay now or pay a lot more later.

Her strategy is to create dissension and confusion around this issue in an attempt to make herself seem like a fiscal messiah.

As all false messiahs have followers, let’s look at the group that speaks the loudest for their leader. They have no actual knowledge, spouting off the specifics fed them by their false messiah. They have no real knowledge of budgets, planning or economics and like to push agendas rather than facts. Their letters to the editor are such works of fiction that Stephen King should be nervous.

One would ask how does this female commissioner recruit these lost souls to do her bidding? That is the nature of followers. They take the Kool-Aid for the rest of us to fall on their mass genocide. I see the reality, and it is not pretty.

Making ridiculous analogies about a church and prison being similar is like saying that the followers of Jim Jones were independent of thought. I also want the public to know that some of them were and are convicted felons. Do you as a fellow citizen wonder why a county commissioner would associate with such people?

Voters should remember the $150,000 lawsuit settlement and the follies of the $350,000 “disenfranchisement” lawsuit that did increase the county’s insurance premium.

Why did this commissioner try to sue her fellow commissioners? What did she ask for as a settlement offer? It was never about disenfranchising the female commissioner. It was about her boosting her retirement when her career ends this term. We all remember the never-ending comments from her followers on a local radio station.

Voters, look at this important issue without influence from a false messiah. Use logic and independent thought to discern facts. Though I use some humor to prove a point, this is not a joke, and those that push a re-election agenda in place of an economic one are doing their masters’ bidding, and the culture of such actions are akin to drinking the Kool-Aid.

James Garletz is a resident of Saltlick Township.