To the Editor:

“What was she thinking?”

We all have choices in life and unforunately lately, a local candidate for selectman in Topsham made more than one bad choice (“Topsham selectman’s candidate faced OUI,” page A1, Jan. 16)

I am not writing to judge Jean (Wolkens). I am writing to try to convey my family’s, my neighbors and my townfolks’ frustration and anger in the choices she made after Dec. 16.

Keeping the accident secret from the public was not her best choice. Intending to run for selectman after the incident is surprising indeed, another bad choice.

If you honor the system of the election process in Topsham, the wise choice would be to drop out of the race and put your energy and attention towards correcting the issues that may have caused Dec. 16 to happen in the first place.

That wiser choice was not made. unfortunately. Jean must realize that she put the Topsham election process, its residents and ones self in sincere dishonor, by first keeping a secret and then seemingly throw the whole process under the bus and also putting a very big asterisk next to this election.

It is clear of the possibilities of having a different winner had the right choice been made. Many people here need an apology. If one does not see it that way, I feel even sorrier for them.

Jeff Deletetsky
Topsham