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Wednesday, October 31, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Greg Walden
By Steve Poss
Correspondent
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To the Editor:
I simply can’t stomach the thought of last
week’s guest columnist assertion that Trump
is the “right person for the job” standing
unanswered.
Lee Iacocca was much more than just
“blunt-spoken.” He was a creative, well-read,
thoughtful, tactful, yet compromising leader.
Donald Trump is none of those things, other
than blunt to a fault. Any comparison between
the tactics, knowledge and skill of these two
businessmen makes far more sense as a study
in contrasts, not similarities.
There is no shame in modest, sustainable
economic growth that we saw under the eight
years of articulate and trustworthy leadership
by former President Obama, who, if you fol-
low history was dealt a dismal economic start-
ing hand thanks in large part to the corporate
greed of business CEOs trumpeted in last
week’s page 2 column. Trump taking credit for
a robust but overheated economy in less than
two years reminds me of the roofer on the job
saying he built “the whole house — it was all
done by me.” Well good neighbors, the roof
this “right person for the job” is installing is
full of holes and the house is now structurally
compromised due to rot from the top. It is easy
to live high on the hog short-term while bor-
rowing/stealing from our children’s future with
ballooning deficits and environmental degrada-
tion—accelerated so hypocritically by Trump
and his “conservative” Republican Congress.
Lee Iacocca was not a compulsive bald-
faced liar, nor did he incite violence against
those who disagreed with him. Really, would
you follow this president into battle while he
calls out from the far (very far) back lines that
this is a worthy, ethically obligatory fight based
on a comprehensive understanding of history?
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I have noticed the letter
campaign in The Nugget
unfairly attacking Greg
Walden. As a concerned
voter I feel compelled to
correct the record.
Greg Walden’s opponent,
Jamie McLeod-Skinner, is
trying to re-market herself
as a “moderate” Democrat.
But her driving around the
district for a few months
cannot disguise the fact that
she has spent her career
as a California/Portland/
Ashland liberal. She touts
her endorsements from
hard-left groups such as
the Unete Center (its logo
is a clenched red fist) and
Working Families Party,
who want to abolish any
enforcement of our borders
and fire the brave federal
law enforcement officers
who apprehend unlawful
aliens who commit crimes
in our country.
She claims that her
“wife’s family have been
ranching in Eastern Oregon
for generations,” but that
family has stated, “It’s
time to clear up this non-
sense about Jamie McLeod-
Skinner being part of
our ranch family. She’s
a California liberal who
came out to the ranch a few
months back and got a selfie
under our sign. Her wife
may share our last name,
but they’re a distant branch
of the family. We’re asking
her to stop using our ranch
sign in her campaign and
stop misleading voters. It’s
not how we do things out
here.”
Indeed, the family has
endorsed Greg Walden.
McLeod-Skinner now
says she “supports” the
Second Amendment, but
during her eight years as a
councilwoman in the radi-
cal San Francisco Bay Area
there is no record that she
ever opposed their dra-
conian gun ban laws. If
she supported the Second
Amendment she would
have taken action then,
rather than pretend to sup-
port it now when politically
expedient here. She would
ban the semiautomatic rifles
safely used in Oregon for
hunting, personal protec-
tion, and target shooting for
generations. Her Democrat
Party seeks to overturn the
Supreme Court’s Heller
decision, which held that
the right to keep and bear
arms is an individual right
belonging to the people,
not to the government. If
her party gets its way, you
will have no Constitutional
right at all. The idea that if
elected she would buck her
own party to protect our
Second Amendment rights
is not credible.
In recent weeks we have
seen left-wing mobs take
over the streets of Portland
and assault motorists and
federal law enforcement
officers while the Democrat
mayor and governor let the
police look the other way.
McLeod-Skinner should
have called for the resigna-
tion of Portland’s mayor,
but she will not stand up to
her fellow Democrats.
Some writers have falsely
accused Greg Walden of
plotting to take healthcare
away from children. Even
The Washington Post called
that a lie. Rep. Walden, as
Chair of the House Energy
and Commerce Committee,
has made sure the Children’s
Health Insurance Program
(“CHIP”) has a full 10 years
of funding for the first time.
Several letters have also
incorrectly claimed that
Greg Walden will remove
coverage for pre-existing
conditions.
McLeod-Skinner wants
voters to believe that any
change to the dysfunctional
ObamaCare means cancel-
ling insurance for pre-exist-
ing conditions. Not true. The
result of ObamaCare has
been a dwindling number of
insurance companies who
will even offer insurance in
many states. Greg Walden
has pledged to retain cover-
age for pre-existing condi-
tions and was a lead spon-
sor of legislation to protect
such coverage. McLeod-
Skinner and her Democrat
Party seek to replace our
healthcare choices with a
“Universal Single-Payer”
(read “taxpayer”) system of
government-controlled and
rationed medicine.
Greg Walden has been a
careful, moderate and effec-
tive bi-partisan voice for
this district. He is the only
committee chair Oregon has
in Congress. He has spent
his life in this district, and
he knows and will protect
our forests. I encourage
voters to turn out for Greg
Walden.
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