To the Editor:

Over the past year I have come to know Marty Klein, primarily in my role with the Killingworth Housing Partnership, where I found Marty truly concerned, engaged and dedicated to finding solutions to the housing needs of our elderly and our young teachers, first responders and volunteers.  Also someone to call and discuss other diverse issues of our town, including open space acquisitions, alternate energy systems for town use,  playing fields, senior center, and a new Town Hall, (have you ever been to a BOS meeting, where most people are standing in the hallway?).  My favorite conversations with Marty are the ones he tries to convince me in becoming a liberal democrat, as I try to convince him of the virtues of conservative republicanism, neither has been able to sway the other, but we both keep trying.

In the fifteen years I have lived in Killingworth, I can remember no other two years when more solutions where implemented.  Marty did not do this on his own, nor is every set back his sole responsibility either, that is not possible in our system.  He did his full share and more of setting agenda, pushing for change, searching for solutions sometimes out of the mainstream, staying engaged, not accepting excuses of why not to do things, not doing what is easiest, which is usually very little, and never hiding from a mistake.  He has used his lifetime of experience, his world travels, his "farmer's sense" to look at problems and solutions from a different perspective, and challenges people to do better.   I believe that is what a First Selectmen is supposed to do.  More has been started and more yet to start, I lend my support to Marty Klein in finishing this good work. 

Tony Savino