Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Do you remember:

—Secret meetings of Altemus and some board members in late 2007?

—The humiliating surprise termination of our county administrator and county attorney?

—The surprise hiring of Teresa Altemus’s personal friend as interim administrator at a salary of $10,000 per month? No surprise to him. He was at the meeting waiting to accept the position which Altemus reportedly offered him in November 2007.

—The grand jury indictment of Altemus and her cohorts of 14 misdemeanor charges of malfeasance and misuse of office? (The indictments were ultimately dismissed for lack of evidence in October 2008.)

—Altemus’s suit against our school board in the amount of $758,000?

—Hundreds of thousands of dollars paid by county taxpayers to attorneys for supervisors Altemus, Ressler, Crewe and Woodard?

—Judge Parker’s sanction of 40 Gloucester citizens for petitioning the court to remove Altemus, Ressler, Crewe and Woodard from the board of supervisors? His sanction required those citizens to pay $2,000 each for a total of $80,000. The Virginia Supreme Court threw out Judge Parker’s order and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression gave him the satirical “Jefferson Muzzle” award for ignoring and violating the First Amendment rights of Gloucester citizens.

Residents of Gloucester Point, if you remember these shenanigans and don’t want to see such mismanagement repeated, come  to Achilles Elementary School on Thursday, April 30, and vote to nominate Chris Hutson for reelection to the board of supervisors. All registered voters residing in Gloucester Point are eligible to vote in this nomination process regardless of their political affiliation.

Let’s give Teresa Altemus the same message York District voters gave her in 2009 when she lost reelection by a margin of 18 percent to 82 percent.

Arnold and Margret Nye

Hayes, Va.