Letter: Sharp guy

Ted Raia, M.D., Pelican Bay

Sharp guy

A recent letter to the editor questioned the performance of our clerk of courts, Dwight Brock.

He is a professional.

A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialized set of tasks for a fee. The traditional professions were doctors, engineers, lawyers, clergymen and commissioned military officers. Today it includes many more, but businessmen and politicians have not made the list.

In addition to earning a master of business administration degree, Brock is a certified public accountant and an attorney. He has spent the last 19 years protecting our interests by watching the unscrupulous and politicians.

A politician is someone involved in influencing public policy and includes people in government and those who seek positions, whether by election, appointment, fraud, divine right or other means. The commissioners, who wanted Jackson Laboratory and have left us $630 million in debt, want to be left alone to do their thing. They now want to use the ballot box to achieve what they could not in the courts.

There is no substitute for 19 years of experience gained by a skillful surgeon, and you do not replace 19 years of experience holding government accountable with someone who has other interests. We all prefer to have the government run "smoothly," but it must start at the beginning by following the law. In this way we are all protected including people who do business with the county.

That is the intention of the law and why we need to keep a Dwight Brock in office.