Former Pacific mayor’s legacy doesn’t change

Published 10:00 am Friday, September 12, 2014

Your Sept. 5 article about Richard Hildreth, the former Pacific mayor, being “officially cleared of corruption allegations” drew my interest. Apparently the state auditor and King County prosecutor found no grounds for bringing charges against Mr. Hildreth.

Those findings don’t change the obvious: Mr. Hildreth’s legacy was a city so politically weakened that the unbelievable occurred. He was unseated by an unqualified write-in candidate who practically destroyed the city and still managed to maintain very strong minority support when he was recalled.

If the word, “corruption” doesn’t apply here, would you accept “decay?”

– Robert Smith