Backing Dawes, Parker
Recently I received a pitch to vote for Brandon Mitchell this November. According to this mailing, he “delivered” a bunch of money to Idaho families in property tax cuts.
I was more interested in the fact that this mailing was paid for by the American Federation for Children. Look that organization up, and you learn that it’s a conservative dark money group headquartered in Dallas that promotes the school privatization agenda. The group was organized and is funded by the billionaire DeVos family. (Information from SourceWatch.org.)
Dan Foreman’s campaign is also sending similar flyers courtesy of this organization’s money.
So I’m being asked to support candidates funded by outside money where there’s an agenda that has nothing to do with property tax relief. No thanks.
I’m going to vote, instead, for Kathy Dawes and Julia Parker, whose campaign money comes from the Idahoans they will represent.
Gary Williams
Moscow
Hope springs eternal
It is a shining example of our time to see the Tribune publishing humanist diatribes in Saturday’s Religion page columns.
Humanism prides itself on the use of intellect/logic to solve our problems. This philosophy was founded upon, and logically consists of, an anti-religious philosophy of life. The Humanist Society of Western New York describes this philosophy as “a joyous alternative to religions.”
Janet Marugg’s Aug. 24 column gives voice to the nonsense. She claims to be a spokesperson for “different spiritual practices and religious identities ... .” Truth be told, she is a voice for those engaging in zero such practices, the “nones” and “dones.”
She states, disingenuously, that there can be both value and harm in a religious community. Several paragraphs full of nonsense, poplike psychology are devoted to her beliefs in the harm religion causes. She “gray rocks” the values it brings.
Please Tribune, keep publishing Janet Marugg’s work, albeit in a different section of the paper. Hope springs eternal that she will find the “clarity” to which she aspires.
Neil P. Cox
Clarkston
Devoid of God, truth
Tim Walz (Democrat vice presidential pick) is playing fast and loose with the truth. He’s accused by veterans of “stolen valor.” His honesty is also in question regarding a DUI, his ties to a controversial Muslim cleric and relationships in China.
Kathleen Parker writes in her column (Tribune Aug. 11), “Walz boasts that Democrats, unlike Republicans, ‘don’t have the Ten Commandments posted in our classrooms, but we have free breakfast and lunch.’ ”
Lack of heeding the Ten Commandments helps explain Walz’s proclivity for lying. The Ten Commandments give us a moral guide to live by, not that we’re perfect. In fact, they show how we continually fall short and need Jesus Christ to put us right with God. As Dennis Prager says, “Truth is not a left wing value,” and not having a moral compass is what allows Walz to continually mislead about his rank, combat experience, etc.
A free lunch program is great for kids who need it, but the left goes way beyond free lunches. One of the earmarks of the left is giving away “free” stuff. Whatever happened to, “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime”? By giving rather than teaching, the left makes people more dependent on them, and helps them gain and retain power, which is their ultimate goal.
Harris’ pick of Walz consolidates the left’s desire for a country devoid of God, truth and moral clarity.
Bruce Crossfield
Clarkston
