Excellent observations!

I would further note that it is not the job of County officials to weigh in on City politics.  And that the water situation in the unincorporated County  --  with very few sewers (so water consumed ends up going directly back into State-protected groundwater), and most water coming from private wells and small private water systems  --  is completely different from that of the City.  

I thought Commissioner Chapman's suggestions that the County move slowly and deliberately on the issue of water fluoridation were simple good sense.

And I am dismayed by the recent trend among fluoride supporters to characterize anyone who disagrees with them as thuggish, corrupt, and dangerous.  It's an unfortunate expansion of the modern tendency to demonize people whose politics we don't like  --  only when it comes to public speech, the laws of libel and slander do still apply.