Editor,

Below is a letter I sent to David Day, executive director for the Port of Coupeville:

Mr. Day, I am writing to correct apparent confusion on your part regarding public response to the decision of port commissioners John Carr and Marshall Bronson to end negotiations with the Greenbank Management Group.

Recent newspaper articles cited you as saying the public response was largely positive. I am a member of the public and I wish to make clear to you and, through you to the commissioners, that my response is anything but positive.

I consider this decision to be a travesty of the democratic process and a violation of the public trust smacking of collusion and prior decision on the part of the two commissioners.

That two lame-duck — one non-elected — office holders can overturn nearly 20 years of collaboration and progress on the eve of their walking away from office is asinine.

Clearly, Mr. Carr barely has a dog in this fight; but this will be the deciding legacy, an act of violation of the public trust, for Mr. Bronson.

Gerald Swanson

Port Townsend