Fox national news recently aired a segment about the City of SeaTac and their pending condemnation of the Cassan property.

Doris Cassan communicated their situation very plainly, and Rob McKenna commented on the need for Washington state to revise its eminent domain statutes.

Fox indicated that they had tried to obtain the City of SeaTac's side of this story, but that the city would not respond to them. I find this arrogant stance that the city seems to assume when questioned (by citizens and outsiders alike) unacceptable, embarrassing and antagonistic,

I cannot understand why the city would not have taken this opportunity (and a plethora of others in the past) to explain their sound reasoning for why their decision would be "for the good of all City residents" so that we could understand their noble reasoning power ... could it be because "sound" and "noble" are but a few of the missing adjectives that would be obvious if the condemnation action was explained honestly and truthfully?

Vicki Lockwood
SeaTac

(Editor's Note: Lockwood reports Assistant City Manager Todd Cutts responded to her letter. He told Lockwood the city had responded to written questions from Fox News but declined an on-camera interview because of pending condemnation litigation.)