Tax increases noted

Perhaps Commissioner Pat Davis's arithmetic is why the Port of Seattle is $4.8 billion in debt.

At the Sept. 7 CASE meeting interviews, she claimed to have cut property taxes by one third. In her Voters Pamphlet statement, she made the same false claim.

A state audit shows a $35 million property tax assessment until 2002, when Davis and other Port commissioners increased that tax to $39.3 million. In 2003, they increased the tax to $57.8 million. In 2004, they increased it to $59.1 million - and again increased property taxes to $62 million for this year.

Is Davis's math that bad or is she "fibbing" for reelection?

We need someone on the Port commission who can at least add!

Dan Caldwell

Des Moines