Inartful but Not Inaccurate

In response
to Lou
Cannon’s letter regarding supposed inaccuracies in Supervisor Das Williams’s
letter to the Summerland community: Mr. Cannon did not see Das walking the
streets of Summerland after the debris flow because Das was trapped at his home
in Carpinteria until the freeway between Summerland and Carpinteria was opened
several days later. His staff were also unable to come south to Summerland
because of the freeway being buried in debris in Montecito. So to expect that
Das or his staff would be personally on hand would, to say the least, be
unreasonable.

As for water
being made available in Summerland: what Das meant was that he had water
delivered because Cantwells was already closed and thus there was no local
source from which to buy water. I know that he had water delivered because I
reached out to his chief of staff soon after the debris flow (she was at the
office with power; he was at home without) and requested it. Water was
delivered to the post office within hours.

The letter to
the Summerland community may have been inartfully worded at a few points, but
it was not inaccurate.