TO THE EDITOR: Dan Stewart, let it go. Or, tell the whole truth. Start with the fact that despite the city paying the expenses for your Duke trip with the promise of reimbursement from Duke, when the reimbursement check came, you cashed it. You may have intended to reconcile with the city, but you did not actually do it. Technically, that is a crime, but no crime was charged in our correspondence. In the final bill that went to you, there is no aim of bad intent, no indictment, only a request to settle the details. If you wanted to refute those details, you should have done so. Otherwise, just let it go.
Jim Calnon
City Councilor, Ward 4
Just wondering, though: If someone "technically" commits a crime, and political officials are looking the other way in a quest to "let it go," isn't that, itself, "technically" criminal?
