The height of hypocrisy is a candidate who says he will refuse corporate money but does not denounce the ugly negative mail paid by his mega million dollar backers. I dislike all the negative campaigning and I know many who share my views.
I appreciate that Senator Sue Serino is keeping her message positive. I know she’s trustworthy and refreshingly honest and it’s clear she cares about the people. She turns down money for her travel expenses and she’s always supporting local causes to help make life better for others. She has effectively listened to the people of our communities and responded to their needs in a positive manner. Anyone who knows Sue understands she does this job to help people and she does not care if a person is Republican or Democrat. Sue Serino is there for all of us.
John Amico, Wappingers Falls
This caught my eye: “(Sue) does not care if a person is Republican or Democrat. Sue is there for all of us.” These words are telling. The author of this letter states an understanding, and this understanding is conveyed to every reader, the phrase “ALL OF US” constitutes, is defined as, is limited to, or at a minimum for practical purposes at election times and at moments of political decision making, is effectively reduced to “Republican(s) and Democrat(s)”. But if you don’t play that game, if you are not a Republican or a Democrat, if you don’t act like one, if you don’t vote for one, if you don’t accept this theory, then, you see, you clearly are not and cannot be considered “(ONE) OF US”. This is a great example of that which is terribly wrong in our political system and in our thinking about the mechanics of a winner-take-all policy of elections. In fact it is in my view the key wrong in American democracy since the emergence of the corrupt-from-the-start two party system a century and a half ago. Through this letter, and through the millions and millions of messages similarly cogitated, easily published, and propagated-to-near-ubiquity each and every day, one and many will be (mis-)led to believe no others, besides the Democratic and Republican party candidates, besides the ideas, interests, organizations, and platforms of these two respective factions, exist – that no choices, no interests, no ideas, no people, no possibilities, no alternatives, no arguments, no… Read more »