City officials are playing politics with the election cycle

Regarding your recent editorial advocating holding city elections on the presidential cycle, it doesn't make sense to only partially correct a situation that everyone agrees needs to be fixed ("Straightening out city elections," July 6).

None of Baltimore's elected officials met with their constituents to discuss this election-cycle issue before they selfishly voted their preferences. The arguments for moving city elections to the gubernatorial cycle significantly outweigh the arguments our elected officials voted to help themselves.

We have time and the responsibility to get the election-cycle right in a way that truly benefit the citizens of our great city. Let's stop playing politics with the issue as the mayor and City Council are doing.

Marvin L. Cheatham Sr., Baltimore

The writer is president of the Great Baltimore Chapter of the National Action Network.