Rep. Ben Carpenter, supported in his ignorance and arrogance by Rep. Sarah Vance, has once more made Alaska the butt of Americas jokes, by comparing a health certificate to Jews wearing the Star of David in Nazi Germany. People I have heard from and articles I have read put us in one of two categories. The first: Alaska is led by the most self-centered, ignorant politicians, and because the people elected these two clowns, the people of Alaska must be very ignorant indeed. The other view is not so charitable, suggesting that we are a group of selfish self-centered egotists who would rather have our way than protect people from a very nasty disease. We are neither, and I am furious that politicians like Carpenter and Vance continue to tarnish the world image of the thoughtful, hard-working people of our state.
It is time that we fire these two freeloaders. Neither has accomplished a single item that they promised in their campaigns. Nor can they point to any other accomplishments during the time they have been slopping at the public trough.
Surely, we can replace them with two competent people.
Roy Wilson
Homer
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