Spanos focused on solving problems he made up for campaign

To The Daily Sun,

As someone who grew up here but has since moved away for work, I was saddened and disgusted to come back for a visit to find an ugly, dishonest and bad-faith campaign of fear-mongering waged against mayoral candidate Andrew Hosmer playing out on the pages of this paper and around town. The tactics employed by Spano and his supporters are not new — use a grossly exaggerated or completely manufactured crisis to cause fear, then blame your opponent for these woes and set yourself as the savior. It is typically the tactic of someone who needs to distract from the fact that their campaign has few ideas of its own.

I still have family active in the community here. I know the people of Laconia have real problems that need to be addressed, and real opportunities that can be harnessed to benefit everyone. As someone who still considers this place home, it took me less than a day back for it to be clear that one candidate —Peter Spanos — was solely focused on a made-up problem and talking about who he doesn't want to help, while the other, Andrew Hosmer, is focused on solutions and opportunities to help all of Laconia.

David Willett

Silver Spring, Maryland