Supporting Corruption

Print Date: Friday, November 3, 2006

Last modified: Thursday, November 2, 2006 11:29 PM PST


Residents of the Fourth Congressional District should be aware of the fact that Congressman John Doo
He has been able to get funding for the repairs to No Hands Bridge, the American River restoration, the Auburn Park Preserve, the Performing Arts Center and numerous important transportation improvements.

Sending a freshman representative to Washington when we have a skilled, experienced and senior public servant is extremely shortsighted.
Here is just one example of what the future holds for the residents of Auburn. As a member of the Auburn City Council, I sit on the Regional Wastewater Authority. Permitting pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency and the State Water Quality Board will require the city of Auburn to choose between sequential, very expensive upgrades to our local treatment plant or connecting to the regional treatment plant in Lincoln.

In my opinion, it has been Congressman Doolittle's commitment to funding the wastewater pipeline coming to Auburn that has preserved the regional choice for Auburn.

His high seniority coupled with his dedication to solve local problems can get things done.

Bob Snyder, member

Auburn City Council

Auburn City Councilman Bob Snyder’s letter supporting John Doolittle is the epitome of what is wrong with politics in our area. He urges us to reelected Doolittle, because he gets pork for our area and even though he is mired in a morass of moral and ethical issues, Snyder is willing to omit mention of any of them because of the financial benefit of Doolittle’s machinations. This is the hard edged immorality that so many of us are trying to overcome.

A person who is willing to sacrifice his honesty and his ethics in order to stay in office is a person who should never be in office.

One of Snyder’s arguments is Doolittle will circumvent the EPA/SWQB (the law) and connect Auburn to a cheaper wastewater pipeline. A mind like Snyder’s, which will sacrifice his morality for a wastewater pipeline, should be examined closely to see if a person of his ethics should represent the people of Auburn.

Snyder has irrevocably tied himself to John T. Doolittle.