LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

To the editor,

In the December tenth edition of the East Washingtonian, there was a letter to the editor supporting voter fraud in the Presidential election. Generally, I read the letters to the editor, but before I read them, I do take note of the person submitting the letter. How this individual has been selected as the mouthpiece of the local Democrat contingent has me puzzled.

After church one Sunday I was involved in a discussion with about eight parishioners. The conversation was politics. Every person participating in the conversation had one thing in common. We all were previous Democrat supporters and now were Conservative Republicans. Not one person there, male or female supported terrorism like the bulk of elected Democrat officials now serving in the House and Senate. None of us was in favor of high crime rates and de-funding police as Democrat Governors and Mayors across the Nation appear to be. None of us had a high opinion of killing children in the name of sport or as Democrat supporters call it “a Woman’s Sexual Health issue.” Did you know that Democrats have killed more children than Adolf Hitler and Joe Stalin had killed people during World War II?

In the last sentence of the letter to the editor in the December tenth issue, he writes “Oh Merlin, could you send the devil down to Georgia too?” He identifies his religious affiliation calling upon Satan to undo the true vote and voice of the legal voters of that State. With Stacy Abrams anywhere near a voting event it is certain that Satan is not far off. He is just an average Democrat like Harvey Weinstein and Andrew Weiner. A Democrat like Matt Lauer and the guy who shot all the people in Las Vegas, and let’s not forget Jeff Epstein, a big time Democrat. Don’t forget Bill Clinton, a person who a great many believe to be the most prolific, non-Islamic child molester in the history of the planet. Just your average Democrat.

I wonder why all of that group gathered outside our house of worship changed parties?

Eric E. McKeirnan

Pomeroy. Wash.

To the editor,

I will not be renewing the account for Sam Weimer as he has passed.

You both have brought life back to the paper and the times that I have read it, I enjoyed it.

Leslie Weimer

Hermiston, Ore.

To the editor,

Before every Presidential election day our anxieties are driven higher and higher by those stoking our fear of the consequences if the other party wins. In general, these fears do not materialize nor the promised consequences. Elections historically have proven to be free and fair even if we don’t like the outcome. Losers generally concede the outcome, and we all move on. In 2016 even though Clinton had won the popular vote by nearly three million votes she had not won the Electoral College vote and conceded so the next day.

In the immortal words of Joseph Welch when confronting the repeated bullying Wisconsin Republican senator Joseph R. McCarthy, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, began on June 9, 1954 Welch’s response was “You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?” President Trump should head those words and move on instead of trying to bully everyone he can to change the outcome of an election he has lost. Multiple judicial rulings of no fraud, confirmation of no fraud from Christopher Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency a Republican Trump appointee who was fired for telling the truth and now Attorney General Bill Barr also confirming no election fraud. It is time for Trump and his supporters to accept the results.

We on the other side understand the frustration of losing an election your side thought you were going to win. When Hillary Clinton, lost it seemed like a bad nightmare for those of us who had supported her, but we were told to get over it and move on by Republicans.

A lot of us on the other side do not believe the differences that exist between us are as exaggerated as we are led to believe by those who seek to divide us into emotional camps of we are right and you are wrong. This does not mean we don’t have real differences but if we step back from the emotional political cliff, we recognize that many of the groups we belong to including families, churches, social organizations and yes political parties can and often do have strong differences within them. These differences can even lead to warring factions which we either allow ourselves to join or we resist and work for compromise for the good of the group.

Republican or Democrat, we love this nation because it is our country and every election held affirms that we do not have to be bystanders but voters who can express our will and in the end we can hope our preferred direction for this nation, if we win, will be honored by the office holders we elect. We do not have to be bitter enemies because we have a different vision of where our nation should be headed. A lot of you on the other side of the political spectrum are our family, friends, and neighbors that we love, admire and respect. It is time we bury the hatchet not in each other but in those who seek to divide us into extremes for their own purposes and not in our own mutual best interest. Remember money and power promoted by media and the power hungry are at the heart of much of this manufactured divide. We can stop the influence if we just refuse to buy in to extremist echo chambers!!

Tom Fitzsimmons

Pomeroy, Wash.