I am disappointed in Commissioner Mullin’s selection for another reason. I would have thought that he, and every other commissioner, would forgo political appointments. I wanted the committee to be citizens without an obvious political bent, and while I have no facts to support my opinion, I would expect most Cecil County citizens would as well. Commissioner Dunn has also selected someone with a political background. I do not know either of these appointees, nor do I need to. They may be qualified, but they are suspect, unfortunately, from the get go. These two appointments to the advisory committee will not give the committee the creditability I wanted and what I had hoped the commissioners wanted as well.

I did not expect apolitical appointees, but appointing people with a very political background is one way to destroy the idea of direct citizen involvement in Cecil government.