Depth of numbers

The per capita income in Spokane is $25,362; 23% lower than the average in Washington state; 15% lower than the national average; the median household income is $43,274, which is lower than the Washington state average and 22% lower than the national average.

The dollar numbers being spent on the mayoral and council president candidates chosen by the Wolff family are mind-boggling to working people of Spokane. The Wolffs say they are doing this in order to provide a more “business-friendly” atmosphere in Spokane city government (“Real estate scion backing Woodward,” Oct. 20). How much better could it get for the Wolff family?

Do they really need the hardworking, blue-collar people of Spokane to cover costs to provide infrastructure outside our city limits in order for them to build more rental housing on which they can continually raise the rental prices?

Their candidates do not like our local elected-officials to talk/take action about clean air/clean water nor about building housing for all that can include social services for those who need regular counseling, etc., in order to continue a semblance of order in their far-less-than-Wolff-family lives. Rather, their candidates endorse jailing those who refuse treatment, never mind the cost of more prosecutors, defenders, judges, law enforcement or lack of space in current holding facilities.

This is a frightening precedent being set in this election; realtors/developers providing dollars far beyond what most families make in several years of work in order to buy their selected candidates in order to get the changes they want in our city.

Judith Gilmore

Spokane