The Chair Responds to the Martins

Mr. Martin;
It is a bit disingenuous of you to send an email nearly a week after you mass-mailed your letter of 14 reasons to oppose the Lake District. There was nothing "respectful" in your letter that simply parroted the same rhetoric, speculation and misinformation that your colleagues at the Lake Koshkonong Wetland Association have been peddling. There was nothing creative or original in your letter -- which makes it easy for me to post your letter with a rebuttal on each point, at the http://www.rkld.org/ website.

The reason the Lake District needs to propose a $5.00 increase to the special charge is to defend the data the scientists have collected from Lake Koshkonong and currently under attack by the DNR, a small band of wetlands owners, and you.

It is borderline insulting for you to "remind" me that the lake was once a "vast marsh." I remind you, the United States was once just 13 colonies, trains replaced the stage coach, Main Street was once hitching posts and dirt. What's your point?

Please don't promote yourself as someone who supports recreation, safety and navigation. It is a transparent attempt to be something you are not. Just be honest with the property taxpayers of the Lake District. Tell them you have not read one page of any report the Lake District has commissioned. Tell them you support the LKWA and the Rock River Coalition. Tell them you are on the side of the DNR and their man-made drought conditions for low water levels.

Be honest. That would be the "respectful" thing to do.

Regards,
Brian Christianson
Chair, RKLD