I am writing in regard to the upcoming runoff election for the Fayette County Commission, Post 3 seat. If you have read my previous comments, you know I'm for Peter Pfeifer. I, for one, am proud to support a candidate who is so well respected and endorsed by so many of the ordinary, everyday citizens, like myself. After all, we are who is he working for. We are the ones he is representing. The majority of people I have spoken with appreciate Peter's efforts to inform us of what is going on and his determination to fight for what he believes is right for this county. They respect his experience.

There were four Fayette County citizens – two of them newspaper reporters - in the audience at the public hearing regarding this fiscal year’s 78-million-dollar budget. If the citizens of this great county don’t trouble themselves to attend an occasional commission meeting and find out for themselves what is going on, but instead depend on what is printed in the local newspaper, whose purpose is to print words that will sell its product, then they deserve exactly what they get when they cast their ballots having no yardstick with which to measure whether those words are truth or fiction.

Sorry for the late reply....

1. The new retirement plan hasn't been finalized at this point and the costs are undetermined at this point. Hence, until it is finalized and the costs are determined, I will reserve judgment.

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan.

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan. 2. Do you have any numbers on what such a plan will cost taxpayers in 10 years, 20 years? If you don’t have the numbers, why not and why should we believe your projections?

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan.

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan.

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan.

1. Given that there’s a serious economic recession and given that many — if not most — defined benefit plans are in trouble across the nation, explain your position on the county’s new retirement plan.