Cooper letter contains misleading information

Dear editor:

In response to James E. Cooper's letter, dated June 25, 2008.

This letter, written to Mr. Gillispie and a similar such letter printed in the July 2 edition of the "Mountain Home News" contains seriously misleading comments gathered as hear-say by Dr. Cooper. Some of his statements allege to my own "involvement" with certain parties and events during the June 16 meeting in Glenns Ferry.

I called Dr. Cooper on June 27 about this matter and followed up with him the following Wednesday, July 2.

During the July 2 conversation Dr. Cooper indicated a gentleman at the meeting told him another gal was me. I'm not sure who Cooper or the mystery informant was. During this conversation it became apparent very quickly that he wouldn't know me walking down the street. Cooper described me as a middle-aged woman with silvering/greying, shoulder-length hair.

Too bad I am mid-20s with very short red hair. Granted, at the time of of the meeting my hair, between trims, was wisping just along the top of my ear- the woman he described and identified as such was not myself.

Dr. Cooper apologized and said he would contact Don Gillispie in person, as well as send Times-News Editor Jim Wright and myself a letter recanting any supposed "involvement" he witnessed that night.

While Dr. Cooper did leave me a message Monday, July 7, stating he had an emergency over the weekend and had to contact Mr. Wright or myself -- he would either, later that day or early this week.

Blair Koch