Letters To The Greenwich Time Editor
To the editor: Congressman Christopher Shays deserves credit for holding town hall meetings, but last Saturday's helter-skelter presentation in Greenwich must have left many of his constituents questioning his labored, Liebermanesque attempts at a political makeover. When he wasn't racing through a series of misleading charts purporting to show how his voting record veers to the left of Ted Kennedy, Shays served up a jumble of confusing statements on the war in Iraq (can his next trip possibly create any more self-inflicted obfuscation?), health care, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. On FISA, Shays echoed two widely held but fundamentally dishonest Republican talking points. The first is that telecom companies deserve amnesty for their illegal, warrantless spying on millions of customers because they were "protecting" the American people, and the second is that the driving force behind the lawsuits stemming from that illegal spying is the greedy trial lawyers lobby. To the first point, it doesn't take a legal scholar to know that one does not "protect" the country by subverting the law and the Constitution in the process. Second, the lead counsel in these suits are not Gucci Gulch attorneys but public interest lawyers who have made great financial sacrifices to defend the rule of law and constitutional protections that benefit all of us, including Republicans. If money were their driving motive, pursuing these time-consuming suits would be the last thing on their mind. Shays' constituents deserve better from their next U.S. representative -- someone who does not perform self-deluding pirouettes designed to flim-flam voters. That person is Jim Himes, a candidate of sterling integrity whose unapologetic commitment to a progressive agenda will best serve the needs of the 4th Congressional District. Bill Gaston Greenwich
Dog-bite penalty not sufficient to get owners' attention To the editor: I would like to ask elected officials and Greenwich residents whether they think it is fair for the fine to be a mere $95 for a resident whose dog attacks and bites an innocent pedestrian walking on a public street. To the editor: I would like to comment about a meeting I recently attended regarding the mold issue with the modular buildings at Western Middle School. ============================================ Please send your comments, news tips and press releases to GreenwichRoundup@gmail.com | |
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