You can tell a lot about a person by the company he keeps. That is certainly turning out to be an eye-opening development when it comes to the subject of Mike McGavick. First, it’s his time spent being courted at a fundraiser by the likes of Sen. Ted Stevens, Alaska. With his lips drooling with arctic wilderness oil and the money in hand for his bridge to nowhere, he biddies up with Mr. McGavick to forward his questionable objectives. In my estimation, Mike McGavick can do better than this, and must do so if he wants my vote.
Unfortunately, he slipped miserably down that north slope when he invited Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to help him out with a recent fundraiser in our Washington. Sen. Frist, we’ll remember, was one of the driving forces behind the Terri Schiavo fiasco, something that should never have gotten off the ground.
More recently, he tied the raise in the minimum wage, something no responsible Republican would ever allow in a dream, with the elimination of the federal estate tax. This, I believe, was the first time I have ever heard a prominent Republican speak kindly of a raise in any minimum wage. What were they thinking? My guess is they weren’t.
More importantly, as described in a recent New York Times column by Thomas Friedman, Sen. Frist is one of those many Republican senators who has chosen to offer no responsible oversight to a war gone terribly wrong.
If these folks represent the chosen company of Mike McGavick, there will be little choice come November. The national course must be changed on many fronts and I’m of the mind that with the Republican candidate for this state, it just won’t happen.
Lloyd Weller
Everett
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