To the editor:

Someone needed to say it, and Jean Godden did! Thank you for 600 words of common sense. I left a very different Seattle years ago to move to a nearby city, where I later had the privilege to serve on the city council.

Usually council actions are measured and reasonable due to fact-finding, negotiation and compromise in the interest of serving the best interests of most citizens. Some bizarre combination of activism and apathy has produced a Seattle City Council moving in lockstep, acting on slogans and half-baked ideas, but obviously out of step with the majority of the public its members are sworn to represent.

Mike Lonergan