Larry Springer has represented this area for a long time and I had the opportunity to work with the Kirkland City Council when I served as the chair of one of the Neighborhood Associations. As an elected official I respected his fairness and bipartisanship as a local elected official – until now.

After reading his joint editorial with Roger Goodman in the Kirkland Reporter, I think he’s just burned up all the good will he’s built in this community. We never heard anything about him being to forced to vote for a budget until now when it’s politically expedient. And it turns out that wasn’t even true, since there were plenty of votes for the budget to pass without his, he could have voted against it if he wanted to. But the political pressure to turn on Andy Hill was too much and Larry flopped like the rag doll he apparently is. What a disappointment.

I know elections are tough and there’s a lot of excitement around them, but for him to turn on his own vote for Andy Hill’s budget just because the Democrats want to win Hill’s seat is quite frankly embarrassing. I wonder why he is in office if we can trust him.

Kathy Finney, Kirkland