Township supervisor motives are suspect

Regarding Naperville Township Supervisor Rachel Ossyra's closing comments in the May 9 "Roads" story, what has become increasingly apparent is that Rachel is the one whose motives should be questioned.

The people who live in Naperville Township are her constituents. We voted her into office and we made it abundantly clear over the past several weeks, en masse, that we are not interested in supporting this smoke-and-mirrors initiative.

Get the numbers right, then put it out there. We'll give it due consideration and are happy to do so. But, as has unfortunately become the norm, she ignores us and has nothing substantive to add. Rather, she fails miserably in building a consensus. She fails miserably in explaining in any meaningful way why we should do this, except maybe because Naperville Mayor Steve Chirico wants it? And then, when backed into a corner she lashes out at her own management team as being disingenuous or otherwise having some kind of hidden agenda? It takes a very special person to publicly attack their own in that fashion.

Rachel, if you cannot be clear to us, we can be abundantly clear to you. Here it is - you are committing political suicide and you're not going to get to the end of the rainbow in Springfield on our backs. Lead us, follow us, or get out of the way. This is really getting tedious.

Michael Pastore

Naperville