To the editor:

I appreciate Chairman Doherty's recent letter, where he straightens us out on how well informed he is with matters of law affecting our Adult Care Center at Sunset Lake. I'll leave that haggling to lawyers and touch on important other misinformation and why.

It matters whether changing county healthcare policy is being driven by Mr. Doherty's ideological agenda or concerns he states in his letter.

If his interest is imposing his ideology on the rest of us in the midst of the pandemic, he and likeminded legislators ought to own it and just say so.

Otherwise, he ought to straighten us out on why county resolutions supported by him and adopted this summer prohibit addressing his stated concerns without the county relinquishing administration of important healthcare programs.

Mr. Doherty doesn't get to hide behind having it both ways; prohibiting solutions that address his concerns doesn't square, period - it's also dangerous.

The county recording of our October 8 Health and Family Services Committee meeting makes clear Chairwoman Rasjz's request to pursue such solutions, acknowledging the need now to amend the resolutions.

And since July, through public hearing testimony, letters and emails, many hundreds of county residents have formally voiced their objection to the direction Mr. Doherty is taking healthcare in our county - to my knowledge, aside for him and likeminded legislators, not one county resident has registered support for it.