April 17, 2012Dear Sir,Good day Mr Scott Stewart One Bermuda Alliance Candidate C15. I read with great amusement your one-third page advert in The Royal Gazette. I wonder how is it you can get a one-third page advert printed in one day when after nearly three weeks I cannot even get my letter printed. Moving along … Let me thank you for visiting my side of the tracks and checking on us pond dogs after the fire. You are correct in saying we don’t like the fires nor the soot. No human being can ever like the thought of their homes being engulfed in flames. Yet what I don’t see you stating is this:For decades the United Bermuda Party directed every form of waste in Bermuda to Marsh Folly. Household waste, dead animal carcases, raw sewage, biomedical waste. The list goes on. Yet whilst we Pond Dogs had to live daily with the stench and flies the UBP did nothing. It was only through constant pressure from the Progressive Labour Party and in particular Ottiwell Simmons and David Allen that the UBP relented and built Tynes Bay. So yes we remember “the neglect” .Mr Stewart, you also mentioned that people in C15 are disillusioned with politics and won’t even vote. Hmm, I don’t know why this shocks me to hear this from an OBA candidate. First and foremost, as a “concerned Bermudian”, you should encourage every registered voter to do their democratic duty and take part in the process. However it falls into the best interest of you and your party to have as many persons disgruntled and apathetic as possible. This constant “Doom and Gloom” message you all are spreading seems like something out of a Harry Potter novel. Let’s be honest ... “One less vote for the PLP is one more vote for the OBA”. What I find most telling is you are not able to say these disgruntled voters are even remotely considering voting OBA.Lastly, MP Walter Roban is a “career politician”. What you fail to state is this MP Roban has spent his entire adolescent and adult life studying every facet of Bermuda’s political process. MP Roban has been tutored by no less than two political mothers — Dame Lois Browne Evans and Dame Jennifer Smith. My point is this: Considering the depth of political knowledge that I see emanating from the current crop of OBA candidates. You all would do well trying to learn a thing or two from MP Roban. And yes, he will continue to be in politics as MP for C15. One advantage of living by the dump is this: We know hot air when we see it and we know the smell of recycled waste when we smell it; not much nor many can fool a Pond Dog!CHRISTOPHER FAMOUSPs It’s a good thing the wind wasn’t blowing west … it would have been sheer disaster for you and your neighbours in Fairylands to have all that soot in your pools and patios.