Letters to the editor
Issue date: 10/27/08 Section: Opinion
Congressman either is scared or wasteful
Our Republican Congressman John Boozman appears to be worried he may lose this election. Despite multiple newspapers writing off Green Party campaigns for lower levels of fundraising, it appears Boozman may be worried. ? ?
You may ask: what is your empirical evidence for this claim? According to the public record at OpenSecrets.org, Boozman has spent more than $230,000 during this campaign so far.
Given this spending, he either is taking our opposition seriously or is liberally wasting a mountain of donor money. How can Boozman justify spending $230,000 when his opponent will spend a mere $6,000?
The answer may be that I am speaking truth to power very loudly, and people may be listening. We are small in funding and corruption, but giant in terms of ideas.
Fortunately, Boozman also faces an especially bad year for Bush Republicans like himself, who are greatly at fault for our economic crises.
Additionally, he voted for the unpopular $850 billion Wall Street bailout, which is not going to soundly address the deeper Main Street economic problems of recession, foreclosure crises, rising unemployment, rising health care costs and rising energy prices. ??
If that $850 billion were spent for a Main Street bailout, many of these deeper problems could have been solved.
These problems are interrelated and could all be comprehensively addressed with single-payer universal health care, a freeze and renegotiation of foreclosures, and powerful investment in clean energy infrastructure to create millions of jobs. ??
This $850 billion could have provided unprecedented funding to state and local governments for transportation and water projects.
It also could have provided extremely meaningful economic incentives for homeowners and the clean energy business sectors to address the economic national security threat posed by climate change, as well as our dangerous dependence on oil dictatorships in the unstable Middle East.
Abel Tomlinson
Graduate student
Green Party candidate for U.S. Congress
Not content to license constitutional rights
The Arkansas Traveler is sure quick on the draw to oppose efforts to restore open carry rights in Arkansas as well as to insist that gun carry rights be limited to only those "with the proper license."
After all, in most states, no license is needed to open carry holstered handguns at age 18. But in Arkansas, open carry is banned entirely.
Over the years, the U.S. Supreme Court has said that the First Amendment does not allow states to require a "proper license" to publish a newspaper.
If gun owners must be licensed to carry a gun, shouldn't newspapers be licensed, too?
Mike Stollenwerk
Alexandria, Va.
Co-founder of OpenCarry.org
They broke out into song
Flag on the play: very offensive referee interference. Penalties offset. Arkansas: 24. Mississippi: 23.
And they broke out into song.
Jeremy Carrell
Maintenance Worker II
Recycling
Our Republican Congressman John Boozman appears to be worried he may lose this election. Despite multiple newspapers writing off Green Party campaigns for lower levels of fundraising, it appears Boozman may be worried. ? ?
You may ask: what is your empirical evidence for this claim? According to the public record at OpenSecrets.org, Boozman has spent more than $230,000 during this campaign so far.
Given this spending, he either is taking our opposition seriously or is liberally wasting a mountain of donor money. How can Boozman justify spending $230,000 when his opponent will spend a mere $6,000?
The answer may be that I am speaking truth to power very loudly, and people may be listening. We are small in funding and corruption, but giant in terms of ideas.
Fortunately, Boozman also faces an especially bad year for Bush Republicans like himself, who are greatly at fault for our economic crises.
Additionally, he voted for the unpopular $850 billion Wall Street bailout, which is not going to soundly address the deeper Main Street economic problems of recession, foreclosure crises, rising unemployment, rising health care costs and rising energy prices. ??
If that $850 billion were spent for a Main Street bailout, many of these deeper problems could have been solved.
These problems are interrelated and could all be comprehensively addressed with single-payer universal health care, a freeze and renegotiation of foreclosures, and powerful investment in clean energy infrastructure to create millions of jobs. ??
This $850 billion could have provided unprecedented funding to state and local governments for transportation and water projects.
It also could have provided extremely meaningful economic incentives for homeowners and the clean energy business sectors to address the economic national security threat posed by climate change, as well as our dangerous dependence on oil dictatorships in the unstable Middle East.
Abel Tomlinson
Graduate student
Green Party candidate for U.S. Congress
Not content to license constitutional rights
The Arkansas Traveler is sure quick on the draw to oppose efforts to restore open carry rights in Arkansas as well as to insist that gun carry rights be limited to only those "with the proper license."
After all, in most states, no license is needed to open carry holstered handguns at age 18. But in Arkansas, open carry is banned entirely.
Over the years, the U.S. Supreme Court has said that the First Amendment does not allow states to require a "proper license" to publish a newspaper.
If gun owners must be licensed to carry a gun, shouldn't newspapers be licensed, too?
Mike Stollenwerk
Alexandria, Va.
Co-founder of OpenCarry.org
They broke out into song
Flag on the play: very offensive referee interference. Penalties offset. Arkansas: 24. Mississippi: 23.
And they broke out into song.
Jeremy Carrell
Maintenance Worker II
Recycling
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