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ELECTION: One vote against

| March 21, 2018 1:19 PM

If you support the return of a heartless county commissioner, vote for Marc Eberlein. This is a man who charged my wife and I double what we should have paid for property tax because we didn’t sign a form saying we live at our house. He just looked at me and said, “your Realtor should have told you.” I saw him do the same to a disabled man at the tax cancellation meeting.

He claims that we need to prove undue hardship, but state code disproves that. Besides, a scam like this destroys faith in local government and actually decreases tax revenue because those who are robbed would otherwise reinvest in the community. In our case, the money would have gone to Smart Starts preschool for our son and would have opened the window for a second income.

KEITH SHOCKLEY

Coeur d’Alene