Focus on minutia misses real issues

It is amazing to me that so many people write and talk about the minutia surrounding the most important election choices of our lifetime. Arguments about tax returns, college transcripts, birth certificates, bank accounts in foreign countries and who went to church where and why are inconsequential. Stop it! Quit focusing on the rat chewing on your favorite piece of furniture while there is a Tyrannosaurus Rex out there gobbling up entire neighborhoods.

Richard Ek

Everett

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