Unions spent $10 million to make a point
Re: “Labor bosses have eggs on their faces,” June 13
Linda Chavez tells us Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., opposed Big Labor-backed “card check” because she “listened to her constituents.”
Nonsense! Her constituents opposed the Wall Street bailout Blanche backed, too.
Arkansans now see big companies bankrolling Lincoln’s scrap with liberal Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, making her even less likely to win in November. And when she loses, Big Labor will get some of the credit for sitting it out to make its point about Democrats who vote like Republicans when it counts.
Sure, $10 million is a lot to burn on a losing effort, but undoing mistakes costs double that amount. Maybe the unions are putting everybody on notice that they won’t rubber-stamp one party any more.
Dino Drudi
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Israel has always been the Jews’ homeland
Re: “Helen Thomas’ silencing further obscures truths,” From Readers, June 11 & “A balanced look at Helen Thomas’ comments,” From Readers, June 13
These two letters supporting Helen Thomas ignore the Biblical as well as the ancient and modern history of the State of Israel. Jews have always considered Israel their homeland and have had a continuous presence there for four millennia despite countless efforts to deprive them not only of their heritage but their very existence.
There is now a coterie that wants to deny the promised land to Jews and instead give it to residents who have lived there only a few generations. Many of the so-called Palestinian Arabs are recent immigrants from the old Ottoman Empire.
Israel has always been a homeland for Jews. The writers join the chorus of bigots who want to delegitimize that nation.
Nelson Marans
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