If you don’t like the lagoon that one politician is trying to push on us, look at what he seems to be doing with the Sanitary District elections.

The Sanitary District is an independent government agency that manages our wastewater treatment and disposal. Twelve percent of our property taxes go to the Sanitary District.

It is not glamorous work. Incumbents Greg Dudash and Tom Reski have over 50 years of experience in the business.

They are being challenged.

Challenger One’s primary qualification is he served as Treasurer for the Art Tolis for Town Council election committee. Challenger Two, like Challenger One, is a member of the same club as Art Tolis.

The challengers are friends of the aforementioned lagoon politician. Why do they want to control the Sanitary District? I repeat, the Sanitary District has substantial taxing power.

A recent candidates’ debate exposed what’s really going on. During the Q&A, the lagoon politician claimed the Sanitary District promised to “take on” a study of needed capacity to service the State Trust Land. He claimed that the minutes of a meeting show the Sanitary Board has reneged on that promise. On cue, one of his designated challengers stood up and said, if elected, he will force the Sanitary District to spend our taxes on that study.

The District’s April 18, 2017 minutes prove differently. The District “volunteered” to solicit a cost estimate for a study, but suggested “some entity other than the District fund a study” into any needed additional capacity.

The lagoon politician is again misrepresenting the truth. Will it stop? It won’t if his surrogates are elected to the Sanitary District Board.

We don’t need ill-informed and unqualified representatives. We don’t need friends of politicians taxing us and running our Sanitary District.

We need to re-elect Greg Dudash and Tom Reski.