Editor:
I just read the letter to the editor titled “Businesses should consult customers” by Bill Davis (June 20).
I am appalled that The New Era would choose to print such a tasteless letter.
In the so-called guidelines to writing to the editor, it states that they encourage readers to express their opinions on matters of public interest. Since when did slander and someone ranting like a spoiled child become “public interest”?
In regard to the bakery part of the letter, you, Mr. Davis, mentioned you came in several time around 11 a.m. to get donuts. Did you once speak up like you accuse the business owner of not doing? I guarantee you if you had, they would have told you that most donuts are gone by that time in the morning. I also know they would have kindly set aside donuts for you to make sure you had the donuts you wanted. The reason I know this is because my parents owned that bakery and, I’m assuming, the restaurant you are referring to in your letter.
About your personal attack on the owner who you accused of making a hamburger for herself that was bigger then yours, it seems to me, Mr. Davis, that you only look for the bad and not the good. All I got from your letter was “I want, I want, I want.” Well, Mr. Davis, I want a lot of things too, but I’m not writing a letter to the editor downgrading people or the business they worked hard to keep going.
I am disappointed that The New Era keeps choosing to print letters like Mr. Davis’, not to mention Kim Lawrence letters. It seems to me that there have to be other letters submitted. Not letters that slander people, downgrade our city and, in my opinion, are not “matters of public interest.”
It may seem my letter is a little hypocritical but when I read a personal attack on my parents, I am going to stand up for them. It’s gone too far when The New Era keeps choosing to print letters personally attacking others.
For Mr. Davis to criticize my parents regarding the “bakery & restaurant” was cruel. To say they didn’t ask or care what their customers want was out of line. I guess you don’t realize how much hard work, money, energy and effort it took for them to make Mollie’s what it was. The point is, they did that for the customers!
You should be ashamed of yourself, Mr. Davis, for writing such a letter.
Meranda Vannice
Sweet Home