TO THE EDITOR
DON’T BUY BUD
As a member of the Eugene-
Springfield Solidarity Network, I
want to express my support for the
striking workers at Western
Beverage, and my outrage that
Western Beverage Co. employs se-
curity guards who find it acceptable
to grab a peacefully protesting
woman by the hair and pepper-spray
her in the face.
That action on the part of a
Western Beverage-contracted secu-
rity guard on Saturday highlighted
the company’s disregard for the
safety and well-being of employees
and their family members!
The workers on strike at Western
Beverage aren’t asking for anything special;
they just want to maintain the pension and
healthcare plans that they’ve had for years. As
a community member who cares about work-
ers’ rights, I will not be purchasing any
Western Beverage-distributed products (in-
cluding Budweiser, Busch, Red Hook,
Widmer and Hansen’s sodas) until the com-
pany settles a fair contract with the workers!
Jean Schauerman
Eugene
COVERT KINGDOM
As a taxpayer, I oppose funding any entity
of the U.S. government that is not answerable
to us. Giving millions of taxpayers dollars to
Vice President Cheney, who claims to be both
part of the executive and legislative branch
and answerable by his logic, therefore, to
none, seems grossly inappropriate and con-
trary to every American tenet.
We don’t do kings! I have always strongly
felt that we accept “No kings attached” along
with “No strings attached.” Each branch of
government is answerable to the others, and
no one, Republican or Democrat, standing
president or covert president, king or regent,
is exempt from accountability. Apparently,
not even the Secretary of State and the
National Security Advisor were party to
Regent Dick’s machinations regarding tor-
ture permissions for over two years and
learned about his ideas when they read it in
the newspaper.
If Co-President (aka Regent) Cheney
wants unbridled power, unchecked author-
ity, then Americans should not pay his VP
expenses. Let him pay for his own covert
kingdom.
Kate Wallace
Springfield
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