I am a Houghton community member, and while I’m happy that Houghton as a community will remain as such with a voice, I am somewhat dismayed by Rep. Larry Springer’s single-minded attitude to do away with our rights as property owners and community members.

How many times do you have to hear “NO” before you listen?

While many, including me, have voted for you in the past, that will change in the future, if you do not. You really should change  your website opening as it is hypocritical when you say, “we demand respect for human rights – including property rights.”

You disrespect us as community members and our ability to exercise our rights even to the small degree that the Houghton Community Council affords us. We, as citizens, pay you to represent us.

We have many serious pressing issues in our community, in the 45th District, and in this state. For you to waste your time, and our money, trying to “win” at any cost is unacceptable.

If this is your priority, it is not the citizens’ priority, in Houghton, or Kirkland at large.  If it was, then you would not even have to come out and say that you are going to sponsor another bill next year, just like the one that just failed.

How many times do you have to lose before you get the message?

As a citizen who votes, I expect you to use your resources wisely and to the benefit of everyone who pays your legislative salary. Please do the job you were elected to do, serve the community at large and help us make it a better community and a better state that does respect the rights of the individual.

Lyle K. Dillon, Kirkland