A Friday letter criticizes Sen. Patty Murray for not dressing up to meet with unemployed constituents. She suggests Murray hire a personal shopper. I am astonished that anyone would advocate public money being used to help senators play dress-up in a down economy. Who you are is not what you look like, but how you treat others. An expensive suit says nothing about character.
For an allegedly “Christian” nation we sure do put appearances first! Jesus got away with wearing peasant clothing. Today he’d be encouraged to wear a suit, expensive tie and cufflinks, or else he’d be mocked and put on a worst-dressed celebrities list.
Give me a smart nerd who doesn’t know how to dress to impress, or someone frugal enough to shop at a thrift store like the rest of us have learned to do recently. Suits and ties say only, “We want to impress you.” It takes more than that to win my vote.
Michael Lockhart
Marysville
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