There have been a number of letters, including the one by Mr. Bonin, suggesting that the will of the people in the annexation area were overridden by the city council when it approved the annexation and that the annexation process was unfair for the residents of the pre-annexation Kirkland.

So, some comments:

• More than 59 percent of the voters in the annexation area approved of the annexation.

• I’ve seen nothing to suggest that state law was violated during the annexation process.Kirkland, as it was before this probably last annexation, was the product of a series of annexations. In that context, who really are the “original residents?”

Bob Thompson, Kirkland