The Young Letter
I am writing to give perspective to the recent ethics commission complaint filed against Kathy Dusenbery, former Parkville Mayor and candidate for Platte County Commissioner (Ethics Commission Proceeds with Investigation into Forwarded E-mails, April 28).
This complaint is a political maneuver to attempt to discredit one of our community’s finest public servants.
All that Kathy did was forward an e-mail from her personal computer, from her personal e-mail account, that included a statement from one of the Parkville mayoral candidates. She merely forwarded the email, like we all do from our personal computers, and didn’t stop to consider that her signature as mayor was at the bottom. Of course, this wouldn’t be an issue in any other city in the nation, Parkville is the only place where a Mayor can’t endorse a candidate.
We need to look at the real motives here - the loser of the mayoral race and his cronies who are now trying to discredit our former mayor in the hopes of defeating her in her bid for the Platte County Commission. It’s telling that David Williams, the complaint filer, has been a long-time business associate and has financial investments with the defeated Candidate Tom Hutsler.
Mr. Hustler lost by a wide margin — you lost, now stop the personal attacks and move on so that we can all work together to make Parkville an even better place. There is much work to be done and the new mayor and board of aldermen need to be focusing their efforts on continuing to move our city forward instead of dealing with this political nonsense. There is enough of that going on at the national scale.