In an era of monumental right-wing failures including Iraq, a huge federal deficit, collapsing health care and spiraling local taxes, Stan Gudmundson (Sept. 13) needs to learn that the old lefty scare goes nowhere. Indeed for most Minnesotans, lefty has come to have a pleasant association as we think of our most celebrated Minnesota Twin, Johan Santana, making us all proud in spite of anti-immigrant, right-wing rhetoric. Gudmundson only adds expensive gasoline to his fire by bringing up President Clinton’s Kosovo policy — that in fact halted hideous and rapidly spreading ethnic cleansing without our soldiers losing their lives —because it invites comparison with President Bush’s Iraq policy that has bred civil war, terrorism, global instability and massive casualties, American and Iraqi, but uncovered no weapons of mass destruction.
Many of our senior citizens and working families are strapped with heavy health care needs and costs. Republicans have cut and run from both local health care and education throughout the state in full retreat to their suburbs. As a state senator for all of us — not just the right wing — Sharon Ropes will do what she can to solve these problems at the state level and has a vision that includes long-term solutions. While we thank Sen. Kierlin for his service, he never advanced this kind of commitment. We can support the innovative solutions of our future Sen. Sharon Ropes or we can follow Mr. Gudmundson on a very old, tired and misguided ideological rant right over the cliff.
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