Mash Notes, Hate Mail & Other Correspondence

A New Approach to Campaign Financing To the Editor: There are relatively few topics on which today’s voters agree, we’re divided on so many issues. But one area my friends from practically every part of the political spectrum are agreed upon is this: we need a new approach to campaign financing. Too many elections, especially those on the state and national level, are being influenced by campaign contributions from special interest groups, from large dollar donors and from out-of-area interests. There is a large consensus on the need to reform our current means of campaign finance.  One recent development is a proposal to have campaign …

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War Criminals Do Not Belong On The United States Advisory Commission On Public Diplomacy Dear Friends, Elliott Abrams was instrumental in setting up and propping up death squads in Central and South America, and was convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra Scandal as well as being a chief proponent of the Iraq war and an advocate for a U.S.-supported coup against President Maduro of Venezuela to install Juan Guaido. Read more about Abrams’ background in The Nation or Responsible Statecraft. President Biden has nominated Abrams to serve on the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy; diplomacy is something that Abrams is firmly …

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To the Editor: On Tuesday, June 13, 2023, evidence was presented that Vice-President Biden accepted a $5 million bribe for influencing our nation’s foreign policy. Biden apparently “earned” his money by getting a Ukrainian Prosecutor fired; Biden brags about it: https://tinyurl.com/bdzebf5u. There are apparently 17 recordings of discussions with the Bidens about the bribe. The FBI had this information before the 2020 Presidential election and withheld it from the public which, in ignorance, elected a crook who sold our nation’s foreign policy for his personal gain. Only whistleblowers and Congressional pressure on the FBI secured release of this vitally important information for U.S. Citizens and …

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To the Editor: Here is yet another attempt to link something that has absolutely no cause/effect. Proponents of eradicating single family zoning are now claiming that your desire to live in a SF [single family] neighborhood is the reason for “segregation and exclusion” and “…associated with inadequate access to affordable housing and with the segregation of people by income, race and ethnicity…”. From an article on the website Governing.com, headlined, “Single-Family Zoning Linked With Income and Race Segregation”: “An analysis of zoning laws in Connecticut finds people in single-family areas are likelier to be white and have higher incomes than those in areas that allow …

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To the Editor: No surprise that the N.H. Republicans clutched their pearls and screamed like banshees on the honoring of a radical woman. This is not a new phenomenon on the part of Republicans. Recall when Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House in 1995, he had the mural by Diego Rivera removed, as it portrayed a movement of the common people. To their eternal discredit, when back in power, the Democrats did not restore it. The former Maine Governor had WPA murals reflecting similar sentiments painted over and this seems to be the case in other states as well. Cancel Culture has been a …

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