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VOTING: Qualifications matter

| April 14, 2021 1:00 AM

Regarding your editorial “One little letter, one big difference,” thank you for exposing this Pied Piper who has appointed himself the leader of local Republicans. He is not our leader, as you point out, because there are level-headed traditional Republicans who do not agree with his right-wing views.

He and his lemming-like followers condemn traditional Republicans, which is not only an embarrassment to us all, but also an insult to a party that has always “welcomed different views so long as society as a whole benefited.” We do not need extreme right-wing decrees trying to counterbalance extreme left-wing nuttiness.

We voters should vote based on candidates’ qualifications and not on biased diktats from a Central Committee.

BARB ZIMMER

Coeur d’Alene