My letter of two years ago, published in The Gazette, “Shame on county if ambulance fee is approved,” commended the excellent points made by County Councilmember Phil Andrews’ commentary of a week earlier, “Ambulance fees: Do not resuscitate” [November 12, 2008].

Then came the 2010 referendum in which I and other Montgomery County voters decisively rejected the ambulance fee.

The fact that I now am, again, commending the excellent points in Andrews’ commentary of last week, [“Ambulance fee would break trust with voters”] proves the point of his commentary — namely, why is there a proposal for the government to resurrect the fee when, by their decisive rejection of ambulance fees in a legitimate referendum, voters agreed that public safety services such as emergency medical transport should continue to be paid with tax dollars?

Susanne Humphrey, Wheaton