Let's meet in the middle
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Editor,
The state senate race between Janna Taylor and appointed, not elected, incumbent Carmine Mowbray is getting a little bumpy. Anne Marie Semsak’s smear job on Janna was very unseemly.
Rep. Taylor’s grasp of property tax nuance was impressive in her most recent column, while Sen. Mowbray did well on the issue of elder care in hers. Mike Larson’s pitch, as “a thinking conservative” Republican, should get a good look, too. His support of community colleges and trade schools as an effective way to give many young people a more practical route to gainful employment, and careers, is, I think, a very good idea.
And speaking of taxes, how about a flat tax nationally here in Montana? Politicians on both sides of the aisle have been trumpeting it for years, but it never gets done. Can you say tax accountant and tax lawyer lobby?
Carol Cummings should remember that facts are always subject to interpretation even as to their very validity.
As far as her homily about dishonesty, lets remember Sen. Conrad Burns, promising emphatically that he would limit himself to two terms, because too many incumbents had been too long in the Congress. That promise somehow disappeared into the ether.
Whoever gets elected statewide and nationally, let’s hope constructive compromise is reached in the middle of the political spectrum that truly benefits all the American people.
Virgil Hess
Polson
