ouch: candidate takes op-ed writer to task

From the (Jeff/NA) News-Tribune, a letter to the editor from the candidate described/criticized in the midst of Kelley Curran's op-ed...

Interestingly/apparently, the News-Tribune published it as is-- errors included. Independent of the merits of Mr. Koch's candidacy or his opponent's incumbency (and I have absolutely no clue about any of that), he needs to get a candid and competent proof-reader to help him out in the future.

I am saddened about an Opinions column written by Mrs. Kelley Curran on April 22, 2008, where she dogged Adam Koch for telling the truth to the Clark County Farm Bureau organization for the meet the candidates. Mrs Curran simply represents the uneducated level of the general public where they don't want to here the truth.

The county has historically spent “nothing” on expanding the office of Coroner to protect the general public. The Coots coroners have done nothing in the aid to pursue federal grants to help our county financially. Koch will do this. You simply want to here everything is OK and stick your head in the sand. Sorry, after 114 years of the same family telling us 3 bullet holes in the head is a suicide I think it is time for a change. Clark County deserves what Indiana law tells us to do and that is a tandem investigation in all questionable deaths. I'm sorry we will need to spend some money to update the situation but it sounds like Mrs. Curran has helped the good ol’ boy system by voting for previous Coots Coroners. If the previous Coots would have performed their duties to the community for the future, we would not be in the critical short coming we are now in. Clark County falls decades behind every other county in Indiana for coroner’s investigations.

And for the record, the only thing I had to ask Coots for was his personal information — nothing at all about the job. Oh, I asked him when the last coroners inquest was — big deal.

How dare you twist and manipulate my words to make me look as though I had no idea what I was talking about. My ability in a lab investigation simply smokes Coots and his credentials.

If your going to write a column tell it the way it happened. This is not a creative writing contest Mrs. Curran.

There are a whole bunch of items that need to be covered in the coroners office. items the people of Clark County deserve. Break the 114 year political rutt.

— Adam Koch, Sellersburg