Letters to the editor July 16

Conflict of interest

Councilman Sam Nunnally should recuse himself in the voting on the Warming Center’s conditional use permit based on the city’s code of conduct, conflict of interest.

Mr. Nunnally is an employee of the county. His direct supervisors are the county commissioners.

The county commissioners’ 2023 public letter states, “We are asking our peers serving on city councils to not permit or expand warming shelters …”  

Were Councilman Nunnally to vote to not rescind the Warming Center’s permit, he would vote in opposition to the publicly stated wishes of his employer and who he directly reports to. A vote to rescind the Warming Center’s permit would clearly curry favor with his employer.

— Walter Rowntree, Kalispell

Moral Montanans

A woman met with another person and conspired to kill an innocent and defenseless person. The sole motive: the innocent person was an inconvenience to the woman. 

At the agreed upon time and place they bludgeoned the person to death, tore the victim into pieces and then disposed of the evidence in a dumpster. 

In moral societies the premeditated killing of an innocent, defenseless human with malice aforethought would be considered murder in the first degree. In many states this crime against humanity carries the death penalty. 

A letter to the editor from Steve Martinez tried to gaslight readers into thinking that killing innocent humans is a “right.”

His opening statement was the only correct part of his letter in that the Declaration of Independence does read, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among those are life….” We all believe that.

Our founders obviously believed that rights come from God, not man. They believed in the right to life because they possessed excellent virtues and character. 

CI 128 aims to make mankind into gods, to deny the inalienable rights prescribed in the declaration. It’s both evil and absurd. 

“Reproductive choice” is simply a code phrase for the right to kill and good Montanans don’t have to accept this evil. We are better than that. 

Moral Montanans will see through this and Vote NO on CI 128. Only those who are evil, devoid of virtue and good character, weak-minded, or ignorant of both biology and civil rights will vote for killing innocent children. Yes, Steve, we are voting for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every future Montanan. 

Vote against evil. Vote against CI 128. 

— Mike McNamara, Kalispell