Jeffco teachers and parents celebrate election results Tuesday. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post)
Re: “Jeffco voters choose recall; incumbents losing in DougCo school race,” Nov. 4 news story.
Thank you, Jefferson County voters, for restoring sanity and shared governance to the Jeffco school board. True democracy in action is a beautiful thing. When elected representatives ignore their constituents, fail to honor contracts, and hold closed-door meetings while forcing an extreme right-wing agenda down our throats without seeking public approval, they should be ousted. Violations of public trust should be met with immediate revocation of their office.
Again, thank you, Jeffco voters. You’ve done us all, and especially our children, an excellent service.
Jeff Courson, Lakewood
This letter was published in the Nov. 6 edition.Re: “Denver’s go-ahead and a Jeffco revolt,” Nov. 4 editorial.
Following the successful recall election in Jefferson County, The Denver Post continues to cling to its position that recalls over political disagreements represent an abuse of the process.
This argument naively fails to recognize that the process is inherently political. Elected officials are to be held accountable for decisions during their entire term in office — not just during “regularly scheduled elections.”
For an example of abusing the process, one can look to the now-deposed Jeffco school board members, who were arrogant, unresponsive and anti-democratic in the extreme. They used their narrow vote advantage to pursue a lopsided agenda while having no mandate to do so, wielding what Alexis de Tocqueville referred to as “the tyranny of the majority.”
Antone Baltz, Arvada
This letter was published in the Nov. 6 edition.Bravo to the Denver Post editorial board for its editorial on the Jeffco school board recall. I am liberal, but I was opposed to the attempted recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the Colorado legislature gun-votes recalls, and the Jeffco school board recalls for one reason: Recalls should be about serious misconduct, not policy disputes. If the organizers of the Jeffco recalls had used the same money and effort in the original elections in the first place, maybe the outcome would have been more to their liking. This state’s republican form of government is at stake. Are we to simply organize a recall every time a duly-elected official makes a policy decision, or votes on a bill, that we don’t like? If you don’t like an elected official’s policies, feel free to organize against them — at the next election.
Peter Gross, Denver
This letter was published in the Nov. 6 edition.
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