Kudos to Routt County treasurer

“Routt treasurer rejects check,” Aug. 22 business news story.

So often these days we hear people complaining that our elected officials have no principles. Routt County Treasurer Brita Horn has plenty of principles, and backbone too!

Horn’s reason for rejecting a partial payment of overdue taxes from Peabody Energy was eloquently stated: “By law, if my office can’t offer a tax break to a single mom who worries about feeding her children, I’m not going to offer one to a multi-national corporation that just asked the bankruptcy court to pay its executives $12 million in bonuses.”

Routt County should be very proud of its treasurer.