Shame on Chip Morrison and Elliott Epstein for their criticisms of Auburn Mayor Jonathan LaBonte and the Auburn City Council. Morrison, in particular, should particularly be condemned for publicly calling for a “recall” of Auburn’s elected officials.

What is the great crime committed by the Auburn officials, according to Morrison? They dared to vote against allowing Auburn city employees, on city time, to work on requests for information from the Lewiston-Auburn Joint Charter Commission, of which Morrison is an elected member.

The commission is pursuing the ridiculous, pie-in-the-sky notion that the cities of Auburn and Lewiston should merge into one city. That is a terrible idea for both sides of the river and the commission has already wasted tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on the harebrained project.

As an elected official, Morrison needs to understand that he doesn’t just get to dictate the way things are going to be. People have a right to disagree with him.

Congratulations to Mayor LaBonte and the Auburn City Council for standing up to Morrison and his friends from the Chamber of Commerce who are so obsessed with seeing their pet project passed that they feel they must resort to personal attacks upon decent, hard-working, duly-elected city officials.

Dee Chapman, Auburn