Wednesday, December 20, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters salutes...
LETTERS
Continued from page 14
It is vital to the health of all Oregonians
and the economy of our state to vote “yes” on
Measure 101. Please take the time!
Wendie Vermillion
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Kiki Dolson wrote:
Thank you to every-
one who donated to Furry
Friends Foundation for our
annual holiday pet food
drive.
We are truly thankful for
this community and it’s
spirit of giving.
We distributed pet food,
toys, coats and treats for
346 pets this past Saturday,
including 110 cats, 15 kit-
tens, 190 dogs, two puppies,
three guinea pigs, five para-
keets, two cockatiels, two
doves, two parrots, six rab-
bits, four chickens and even
five goldfish.
This was made possible
by the donations and support
of Sisters Feed & Supply,
Sisters Bi-Mart, and Mud
Bay pet store and Petsmart in
Bend. Thank you to the local
nonprofit Heartwarmers for
their huge donation of hand-
made chew toys. We are also
grateful for continued sup-
port of American Nutrition
with their donated three pal-
lets of pet food and the gen-
erous yearly donation from
NylaBone.
Thank you to Teresa
Mahnken for inputing all the
family information for our
database this year.
With the help of Saturday
volunteers Vern and Monica
Rendon, Sam and Carolyn
Davis, Valerie Fercho-
Tillery, Sally Blust, Daca
Thomas, Jeanie Ogden,
Adrienne Graham, Jeannie
Sandecki, Teddy and Dan
Crippen, Kennedy Smith,
Alexa Asson, KC Dolson
and Sabitri Dolson distribu-
tion made for another suc-
cessful year.
Furry Friends Foundation
is still accepting much
needed year-end dona-
tions. They can be mailed
to P.O. Box 1175, Sisters,
OR 97759 or dropped off
at our new location in the
Sisters Art Works Building,
204 W. Adams, Ste. 109 on
Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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To the Editor:
The congressional Republicans and their
propaganda machine Fox News want you
to believe that all politicians (but mostly
Democrats) are corrupt and the press is biased
against them.
Craig Rullman’s “The monkey’s fist” (The
Nugget, December 6) is a perfect example
of this. He reminds us of what Nancy Pelosi
said in March 2010 about the Affordable Care
Act, “We have to pass the bill so that you can
find out what is in it.” Mr. Rullman uses this
out-of-context quote as shorthand for the sup-
posed dodgy process through which the ACA
was passed and the “elitist mentality” of our
government. He doesn’t mention the fact that
the bill had been publicly available and pub-
licly debated for months when she made that
comment.
After the initial writing of the ACA in July
2009, the House added 160 Republican amend-
ments to it. The Senate Health Committee then
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spent nearly 60 hours working on the bill. The
Senate Finance Committee held 53 meetings,
considered 130 amendments and held 79 roll-
call votes. There were 44 hearings and pub-
lic events about the plan in the Senate alone.
Compare that process with the GOP’s tax bill,
considered the most sweeping rewrite of the
U.S. tax code in three decades. It was made
public, even to most Republicans, just hours
before it was to be voted on.
Instead of being angry about Ms. Pelosi’s
comment, as Mr. Rullman says we should, we
should feel encouraged and heartened by that
entire process and all the hard work done by
our representatives making ACA the law.
We should expect our politicians and
media to tell the truth, and we should hold
them accountable when they don’t. Notice
that when Democrats are caught doing wrong,
they’re asked to step down. When the press
makes a mistake, as did ABC’s Brian Ross,
the error was acknowledged and Ross was
suspended four weeks without pay. Contrast
that to Fox News, a fake news agency that
lies daily with no apology and is rarely held
accountable.
Democracy doesn’t work in a culture of cyn-
icism, lies and without accountability. As citi-
zens of this democracy we have an obligation
to be informed, discover the truth and be more
discerning when it comes to our news sources.
Terry Weygandt