Using city funds for state project just isn't right

To the editor:

In response to Rhonda Roth of Malden, Mo., many people think along the lines of Jim Drury, who has pointed out the problems of the voting for the River Campus. I too am opposed to using city tax funds for the money pit at Southeast Missouri State University. Roth should ask the Malden City Council for $8.9 million to send to SEMO.

Drury is always thinking ahead. It would be a losing project to build a hotel downtown. If it wasn't, someone would have already done that.

Using much-needed city tax funds to support a state institution is not right. I might have made a terrible statement and used a double negative, but I am very positive on my convictions.

JOHN R. HECKROTTE

Cape Girardeau