I am so sad after reading the article in Saturday, July 30 paper about the Republican meeting. I attended the meeting on July 28 as an elected PCP. The article in your paper did not capture what happened. It was shocking to me how a small group of people can totally disregard the bylaws and manipulate a process. It was a clear example of “might makes right” or as one of the ring leaders said — “we don’t care about the bylaws!” Most of the people in Baker County, whether Republicans or not, understand that a society cannot long exist without rules and laws. That’s just common sense. When you blatantly disregard the rules designed to keep order, chaos is the result. Just look at Portland and the chaos resulting from allowing radicals to govern the city. Well, don’t be fooled: When we allow extremists to toss aside the rules so they can illegally grab power then Portland‘s chaos is coming here to Baker County.

Nora Bass

Baker City