A speaker at the Cannon Beach City Council meeting this month said to the council: “You have spent hours, days, months, years looking at this topic … (to) give in to a very small, very litigious and very vindictive group is not in your best interest. It’s not in the voters’ best interest.”

It is, indeed, in the voters’ best interests to subject the five members of the council to oversight by the people who elected them. That election does not come with a blank check for committing to $33 million worth of debt for the citizens of this village.

Sure, the council has spent a lot of time on this issue; that’s their problem, that has become ours. The “hours, days, months, years” that they have spent on it pales in comparison to the hours, days, months, years that the residents of Cannon Beach would have to live with the council’s decisions.

And in response to the speaker’s misguided description of Cannon Beach Together:

• CBT is not a “very small” group, and its followers include every lifestyle and business interest in the village.

• CBT did not begin with being “litigious” as an objective. The council’s actions have made us litigious.

• CBT is not “vindictive.” Disagreeing with someone does not make anyone vindictive.

Welcome to America: Let the voters decide what is in the voters’ best interests.

DAVID FREI

Seattle