To the editor
Today I read a letter to the editor from Dean Hoskins. The letter fails to mention that this action was done by court order. Dean and/or his brother had fought the court order through the appeals process, and the judge still ordered that the property be abated. I am sure that you can ask any citizen in the city of Churdan what the property looked like.
I also spoke to county attorney Thomas Laehn and asked him about the section of the letter that refers to him. He stated that Dean misrepresented his position and misquoted him. In any instance in which someone wrongly threatens to sue a county official, it is Laehn’s duty to represent Greene County. That is one of the principal reasons we have a county attorney.
I do my job with all interest involved. Dean failed to mention that I stopped the city from taking a semi-trailer that the city wanted gone also. Dean and his brother agreed to remove it from the property with their own semi.
I believe this is just another case in which someone is mad because I did my job as Greene County sheriff. One the very first things a sheriff is responsible for is serving court orders.
Sheriff Jack Williams
