Won't shop at Super 1 anymore
Editor,
We are reading on last week's front page of the Leader newspaper that the "Lake County First" bunch and nine others headed by Mr. Greg Hertz, owner of the Super 1 grocery store, are suing the city council of Polson for their move to okay the new Wal-Mart Supercenter.
Now by this, it's plain to see that Greg Hertz et-al are "going for broke" with this action. I, for one, did not agree with editor Ethan Smith's column a couple months ago when he said that Hertz should come forth to defend his business. In fact, a lot of those we talked to on this subject agreed that he (Hertz) would have been the better by not doing so in that he was in effect creating unfavorable good will with the pro Wal-Mart shoppers he also enjoyed the trade of.
Now with this action, we will no longer use his establishment — Thursday specials or no. Safeway is a very nice store, and we have used them all along, but now will do so 100 percent. So, Mr. Hertz and others, as I said, you are going for broke, and my belief is now that you may find this legal action very much repercussive to your business.
As for the council, we are pleading that you not cave in to this power play by these disgruntled few who absolutely do not have "Lake county first" in mind with their cheap tactic lawsuit.
Come on, you others in the area, let's have another round at this by letter to again get the feel, and show the community who in fact has the power. Will it be those few disgruntled individuals who sue, or we with the money in our pockets to spend when and where we wish?
Please editor Smith, list in the coming weeks paper the other nine who are a party to this action and their business names for our benefit.
Will Elliott
Polson
Editor's note: You can read more about the other plaintiffs on page A1 this week. We did not have a chance to interview many of them before last week's deadline. As you can see from this week's story, they aren't suing for business reasons, but for personal reasons — to protect their property values.