Reader: Give new mayor a chance

I am disgusted and disappointed how our Edison residents and council members have attacked Mayor Choi from the get-go.

They have created a poisonous atmosphere within the township administration which does not benefit anyone. We all want to have an honest, clean and efficient government, which Choi pledged to do.

But this will not happen if the Township Council consistently takes an adversarial and confrontational attitude all the time. I ask the council members to get past their own petty agenda and prejudices for the sake of Edison. Think about this, if Bill Stephens were elected mayor and is doing exactly what Choi is doing, would the council members and Edison residents act and feel the same way?

I just got back from active duty deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and have been an Edison resident since 1991. Our nation is sacrificing a lot in an attempt to provide the Iraqi people an honest and democratic government. Could we not do the same for our town?

Ira Lacson

Edison