Stealing signs by night only solidifies support

Last night, under cover of darkness, someone came onto my property and stole my signs supporting Barack Obama and Jeff Merkley.

It is interesting to consider what this juvenile action implies: Intolerance? Fear? Narrow-mindedness? Certainly it shows disregard of the rights of others to express their preference.

During this long campaign, there has been a genuine effort on the part of some people to restore civility to the American election process. To support this effort, let us speak out against unevolved behavior and confront those who would try to deny free expression and force their beliefs on the rest of us. And let us elect candidates who will exemplify maturity and tolerance.

April Fisher, Kings Valley

Think long and hard before voting for McCain

In his Oct. 10 letter, Larry Daley warns us to think twice before voting. Maybe we should think three or four times before voting for McCain.

In exchange for McCain intervening with regulators on Keating’s manipulation of Lincoln Savings and Loan, which fleeced thousands of elderly of their life savings, McCain got free family vacations, the taxpayers had to bail out the S&L, and McCain was chastized by the Senate.

About McCain’s advisors: Try lobbyists like Green and Berman, paid by Ameriquest $720,000. This company had to settle claims in 49 states, for some 325 million and fleeced some 13,680 New York homeowners.

McCain’s “Joe the plumber” (Sam Wurzelbacher), isn’t even licensed, owes income tax and says he really wasn’t buying the one-man business.

McCain’s “plan” for health care is to make you buy it. Where you get the $5,000 or a policy is your problem, you just get a tax credit. But he still wants tax breaks for the rich, to cut your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits and has voted against bills that would help veterans, while voting for wars and their military spending ($10 to $12 billion a month in Iraq).

McCain keeps spending: planes he crashed, billions on an illegal war, inflated budgets. Was reprimanded by the Senate for dealing with illegal bankers and his temper outbursts are known to Congress. He wavers between line item veto and pork, but goes along with pork and the Supreme Court has said no to a line item veto.

Marilyn Maurais

Corvallis