How would Tristan Israel have voted?

To the Editor:

Jeff Kristal and Jonathon Snyder, Tisbury selectmen, waited til Tristan Israel was out of town to vote on this Stop & Shop deal? I smell a rat.

Was attorney Geoghan Coogan in on this? Then it follows that perhaps we should try for a million or two from the SSA for the new freight boat for the exact same reasons? Let’s just keep going with more and bigger magnets to draw lots of vehicles to Five Corners.

Let’s not mention that the Stop & Shop has not reduced the size of the building, which has been the chief complaint all along. As I’ve said previously, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission will just guide this project along until there are enough votes to approve a 30,000-square-foot store in the worst location of all on Martha’s Vineyard.

What really puzzles me is why the selectmen did this when Tristan Israel was out of town.

Marie Laursen

Tisbury