Thank you for your excellent discussion about the unseemly role of "special interest money" from developers, lawyers, unions, political action committees and trade groups in the financing of the campaigns of at least five of the Democrats running in this week's primary for Baltimore County Council seats in the 1st, 5th and 6th districts ("Buying influence?" Sept. 8).

Fortunately, in November the people of those districts will have the option of voting for Republican candidates beholden to nobody but them: Steve Whisler in the 1st, David Marks in the 5th and Ryan Nawrocki in the 6th.

Gloria Murphy, Catonsville