To the Editor:

This letter is to inform the residents of Lynn Township of what is occurring in our township.

During the May primary, Supervisor Justin Smith distributed a campaign email for candidate Steve Feinour.

In the email, Smith wrote that my husband [Supervisor Brian Dietrich] and I received over $1 million!

Wow! Really? We were millionaires and did not even know.

My husband and I never received $1 million from "a government program we knew about."

Mr. Smith was referring to the Farmland Preservation program, a program he claims to support but really does not.

Yes, we did buy a farm that was already preserved, and yes we do support this program fully

I attended the next township meeting and made him aware of his error. I asked for a retraction.

Mr. Smith stated he would recheck his information and correct it if the information was wrong. At the end of the meeting he walked up to us and again said he would apologize if he had been wrong.

I attended the next meeting for him to retract it and apologize, but he then refused even when he knew he had made an error.

Mr. Smith has not been truthful and shows no remorse for attempting to ruin our privacy and reputation.

Mr. Smith is upset because he does not believe in the preserving our rural township or Farmland Preservation, Wildlands Conservancy.

He would not answer direct questions on this when others who attended the meeting asked him about this.

He did not want his answer to be on record of the minutes.

Candidate Steve Feinour candidacy benefited from Justin's wrongful email and was present at both township meetings.

The primary contributers to Steve's election commitee include Justin Smith

Yet, Steve Feinour failed to condem Justin's tactics or distance himself from the email.

You can guess that Steve Feinour, like Justin Smith, does not support farm preservation.

As to rezoning more land in Lynn Township, Steve Feinour says, he "will consider any requests that come in front of the board."

You can bet that request will come from Justin Smith. Fellow township supervisor Kermit DeLong also found nothing wrong with Mr. Smith's email saying "it is just an election strategy." Really?

So it is OK to be untruthful about issues just to get elected? Then what desperate private agenda do you have if you must use these tactics to get elected?

Both Mr. Smith and Mr. Delong want to drastically change our rural township.

You can add Steve Feinour to that list. Steve Feinour's campaign is identical and supported financially by Mr. Justin Smith.

Mr. Steve Feinour is not for allowing property owners to choose what to do with their own properties, nor is he for farmland preservation, which enables our township to maintain its rural integrity.

If you really care about the integrity of the community you live in, join our family in supporting and vote for Scott Feinour, on Nov. 5.

Attend some of the township meetings so you can be aware of what your supervisors are truly saying.

It was truly an eye opener for me and I will certainly be attending a lot more in the future.

Fay Dietrich,

Lynn Township