To the editor:

I read this morning’s article about Judge Bullock’s decision and the associated Journal-World editorial with great interest and some puzzlement. From the many articles preceding these, it would appear that the issue as to the level of public resources to commit to the public schools has festered for some years. Given that Kansas is a democracy, if the majority of the electorate really wants increased revenues for the schools it would seem that such a goal would have been achieved by now through our democratic process.

The founding fathers with considerable justification, labored at great length in establishing a process through which public revenues were raised and allocated that attempted to elicit the maximum amount of public debate and electorate participation. Has this process broken down to the extent that we need a “man on a white horse” to save us from ourselves? Accepting a process where we allow a single unelected individual to overrule our elected officials in such matters, however worthy the instant issue, is a slippery slope fraught with potential abuse and serious peril to our system of governance.

George Lippencott,

Lawrence