Waitsburg Fights County Spending
Local business leaders threaten an injunction to block a $10,000 appropriation for the Stubblefield home.
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Attorney Richard Ormsbee of Waitsburg, representing the Waitsburg Commercial club and taxpayers of the east end of the county, today filed a remonstrance bearing 146 names with the board of county commissioners protesting against the board's appropriating $10,000 toward the proposed Stubblefield home. Mr. Ormsbee stated that in his opinion the board had no right to appropriate the amount asked for and intimated that if the sum was appropriated, the Commercial club would begin injunction proceedings against Auditor Honeycutt to restrain him from issuing the warrant. Although members of the board are reticent, it is generally believed the measure will be turned down. Milton Evans writes to the editor that Waitsburg would rather raise the money to keep the home in their own town than see it go to Walla Walla.
“if the sum was appropriated the Waitsburg Commercial club would begin injunction proceedings against Auditor Honeycutt”
Local debates over taxpayer funding for regional facilities are a perennial feature of county politics. The friction between Waitsburg and Walla Walla over where public dollars—and public infrastructure—should land is a classic Washington territorial/civic struggle.
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