Quarter Complaints (Defending Gov K, I must be sick)

The Klamath Falls newspaper is once again complaining about the Oregon State Quarter. The debut of the quarter will be in Portland, while Crater Lake is in Klamath county, roughly 250 mile south.

Randy Adams says

"it's a matter of right versus wrong, big versus small, and ignorance versus greed"

While I agree that Crater Lake would have been an amazing, and appropriate, place to hold the unveiling, other states have not launched their quarters at the places represented.

The Missouri quarter shows the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. However, the unveiling was held at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, half way across the state. Kansas also unveiled theirs at their state fair, upstaging ZZ Top.

California, showing a natural wonder that rivals Crater Lake, is unveiling theirs, not at Yosemite, but in Sacramento.

If it were about right versus wrong, as Mr. Adams asserts, perhaps the best place to debut the Oregon quarter is on the steps of the capitol in Salem. It is, after all, Oregon's quarter, not Klamath County's.

If it were about big versus small, maybe Mr. Adams should consider the cost to the state and FedGov to get dozens of people to Crater lake versus Portland. I'm sure from the dollars perspective, this is a decision of small over large.

If it were about ignorance versus greed, Mr. Adams would not be ignorant of the fact that many states don't debut them at the locations shown on the obverse. He would also not chastise the decision without first examining his own greed.