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Dear Editor:
    Thanks for Amy Smith's coverage of Travis County Judge Sam Biscoe’s unfortunate appointment of professional lobbyist Bruce Todd to fill the unexpired term of County Commissioner Sarah Eckhardt as she resigns to run for county judge [“Then There's This: The Return of Bruce Todd,” News, June 7]. That Todd will not accept his commissioner pay in favor of continuing his professional lobbying while serving as commissioner only compounds the problem.
    Has there ever been a commissioner, city council member, or other elected official who continued to work as a paid lobbyist while serving in elected office? An office that is a full-time job? I’ve never heard of such of thing. It’s worse, given that Todd’s wife also heads up a governmental affairs firm, in which Todd is listed as part of the team.
    Former County Judge Bill Aleshire disserves his good work on behalf of open government by defending the Todd appointment, arguing that Todd will gain extra scrutiny because he is a lobbyist. Such scrutiny is impossible when there’s no legal duty to disclose Todd’s clients or his wife’s clients, and how much they are being paid. Aleshire supports the appointment because he expects Todd to join Commissioner Daugherty in pushing construction of Sh 45 SW over the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer recharge zone.

Dear Editor,
    As co-writers of Blood, Sweat, and Cheers, we would like to answer a question Ms. Cobbe asked about the script in her review [Exhibitionism, June 7]. We developed the script through a combination of improv and writing, using techniques pioneered by the New Colony in Chicago, whose expressed aim is to promote fluidity and spontaneity within a scripted work. As an improviser and a writer working together within a set of new and challenging parameters, we are proud of what we created jointly with our cast, especially amid so many other ambitious elements, from the intense physical training of the leads to the incorporation of actual competitive cheerleaders into the show, to the sheer scale of the production. We knew that not every reviewer would enjoy our light but heartfelt teen comedy with its glittery cheer and dance numbers, but, now that the show has closed, we like to think that the laughter coming from the house each night demonstrated how many in the audience had as much fun watching as we did performing.