I must take issue at Terry Davis’s comments in the recent article on Auburn roads in the (April 20) Auburn Reporter.

To quote Mr. Davis, co-chair of the Arterial Streets Task Force: “But if the people of Auburn don’t want their roads to be fixed and want to continue the patch-roof style, that’s what they’re telling me and the leadership that they want.”

First, who are you Mr. Davis? Did my wife and I elect you? I don’t remember your name being on the local ballot. You don’t, in any way, reflect our wishes. You seem totally detached from the reality of us taxpayers.

Our taxes are supposed to go to roads and if they haven’t been, then that’s the failure of “our leadership” to oversee the proper use of our money.

It is just by the grace of God that I alone hold down a job to keep my family going. You don’t seem to have one iota of a clue to what real families are going through.

We pay over $3,200 a year in property taxes on a house that has sunk to the price we paid for it back in 1997.

I can’t believe people like you are in positions of power, a person with the power to voice our wishes as taxpayers.

– Gerard M. Masters