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The Resolution of ‘Having It Both Ways?’

Dave Colavito, Rock Hill
Posted 10/8/21

To the editor:

In his recent letter, “The Resolution of ‘Why?’”, Robert Doherty would have us believe he’s improving how our county government works. Call me …

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The Resolution of ‘Having It Both Ways?’

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To the editor:

In his recent letter, “The Resolution of ‘Why?’”, Robert Doherty would have us believe he’s improving how our county government works. Call me skeptical.

While I agree frank public discussion among legislators is important, it also isn’t new. Why he suggests he’s responsible for it strikes me as a public relations ploy – priming the pump, perhaps, for when legislators decide in January if he’ll remain Chairman. It’s worth noting, however, his self-congratulatory and deceptive displays aren’t new either.

Consider our county’s notoriously low health index ranking and challenges responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Readers familiar with our legislature’s 23 April 2021 Special Meeting, presided over by Mr. Doherty, will recall him proclaiming: “The main topic that’s gonna be in every discussion in Executive [Committee meetings] from now on, until we fix this problem, is the health index.” And those familiar with his Summer 2021 Newsletter will similarly recall him admonishing the federal government for, among other things, its lack of funding to address it.

Yet, as Chairman, he’s presided over each subsequent monthly Executive Committee meeting since April, and in not one of them was there any discussion on the health index – not one. And of the more than seven million dollars in federal aid our county recently received to address pandemic-related impacts, how many did Mr. Doherty support going toward actually improving our pandemic response and, by extension, the health index? Same answer.

To these and other concerns with his leadership, he should respond in these pages with “The Resolution of ‘Having It Both Ways?’”

Dave Colavito
Rock Hill

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