Is it the company policy to

allow any elected officials/candidates to read editorial articles about

them, prior to them being published, and rebut any accusations on the

same page and on the same day? If so, I think that is a wonderful policy

and I believe that it should be made public in your newspaper, as well

as disseminated to Ms. Rutherford, Mr. Kourajian and Mr. Poolman.

Hopefully, it is NOT the case

that Mr. Tennant has connections with your staff and that he is the ONLY

candidate that will be given this type of "Priority" treatment

in your newspaper? I'm sure the other candidates would appreciate knowing

that you are willing to uphold this full disclosure policy, in advance

of printing articles concerning them, during the rest of this election

process.

Bryan D. Kaiser

Peachtree City, Ga.

[The editor replies: The letter

writer made a detailed charge of a bankruptcy court case, a relevant political

campaign issue. We would not print such a serious assertion without checking

its veracity. In determining whether the allegation was factual, we took

a simple course: We asked the one who allegedly filed the bankruptcy if

the assertion were true. He subsequently wrote a rebuttal letter that

appeared in the next week's paper. Should similar charges arise about

current candidates, we would contact them to ask if the charges were true.

If untrue, we would not print the charges. If they chose to respond, we

would print the responses.]