(This letter was sent to Reuven Carlyle, (D-36th District) and Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-36th District), with a copy enclosed to our office.)

Dear Representative (Elect) Reuven Carlyle, 36th District, and Senator Kohl-Welles, 36th District,

To you who want to replace the Viaduct, I want you to tell me, were you born here? I was born to a family of nine and I liked Seattle the way it was. You have let everyone take away buildings, woods, re-routed our waterways. Overbuilding taking land belonging to the animals. Look what money does to a wonderful city. Get off the pot and retrofit the Viaduct and fix those bridges and roadways. They will never put in as much work and love in anything new.

You want to tax the people for years to come for years to come for all you want done. Look at the schools flat falling in on themselves. You need to go back to the old ways. They closed the old Cooper school, unfit, they said, for children. It had three floors, stairs to keep kids using their legs and minds. Slanted roofs to fend off snow and rain. And yes, it went through two big earthquakes. But money again made it into an art center. Oh you say let them build a new Cooper School, right now they are closing it again. The spending wouldn't be so bad if you all used your brains.

I know no one will remember but I said not to build all those houses in Orting. Now you have 30,000 without homes. You keep taking out the forest and putting in new roadways. You don't need more homes, in the Sunday paper there are lots of homes listed. You are selling our lumber overseas, this has to stop. You haven't seen what February might bring. May God protect us all.

Kathleen Vogel

Delridge