From the start of this battle for clean drinking water in Port Angeles last year, Edna Willadsen and Eloise Kailin (not even a Port Angeles resident) used the threat of trying to move backwards to a second class city as a fulcrum to keep fluoride out of or water.  Washington State has 281 incorporated cities, and only 9 of them are second class such as Wapato and Colville.  All 9 started as second class.  What keeps going through my mind is simply, if becoming a second class city was such a good idea, then why are not more cities trying to become one.  It is because it is not a good idea, and we should not even consider moving "backwards" towards that goal.  Port Angeles is a progressive,  fast changing and moving forward city, the gateway to our Olympic National Park, and sits on one of the only deep water ports in the state.  Stepping backwards in government will not help us.