Wacky Letter to the Editor Last Week and a response which the Spokesman-Review wouldn't print.

The Letter:

Pass the Boot

The next time I am hung up at an intersection by Spokane’s firefighters during their “Pass the Boot Campaign,” I will remember your Jan. 9 story by Jonathan Brunt.

These (sic) civil servants need the “Boot,” they shouldn’t be having their underlings passing it to us looking for handouts.

This disgraceful situation is befitting of Bell, Calif., not Spokane. I can’t think of one reason why we need these individuals. We can’t afford them. Perhaps we should become the largest city in America with a volunteer fire department. Our insurance rates wouldn’t increase more than we are being taken for by these (sic) chiefs.

Bart Needham

Spokane

The unprinted response:

Sheesh

Bart Needham, in a January 16th letter to the editor, begins his anti-firefighter prose by implying that the “Pass the Boot Campaign” is a vehicle for Spokane’s firefighters to collect money to give to Spokane’s fire chiefs. Actually, the event is called “Fill the Boot” and the money collected from thousands of very kind motorists goes to help local children suffering from muscular dystrophy.

The remainder of his screed continues and concludes with the same degree of bias and inaccuracy.

John Griffith

Spokane