Cherryland Board candidates

To the editor:

Fascinating that in a county of over 20,000, the Enterprise would provide front page space to one individual’s baseless accusations of conflict of interest regarding our new County Administrator, Mr. Jim Dyer’s candidacy for a Cherryland Electric board seat.

If good governance is truly her concern, it is hard to imagine that Ms. Houle missed the fact that ex-Leelanau County commissioner Melinda Lautner, made no secret of sitting on not one, but two utility boards. Yet a search of Enterprise archives shows that Ms. Houle voiced no similar concern over that longstanding conflict (by her definition) of interest. Might there be another agenda here?