Editor:
I am writing in reference to “Abortion Prayers Unfazed,” Feb 21. I know that anyone who serves in a public office can do what they want in their spare time.
However, it kind of makes me wonder why Lance Madsen, one of our council members, wants to sit out in the weather — when he doesn’t even have any woman parts.
He is taking his stand on anti-abortion, which he is allowed to take. Will he provide for the unwanted babies he is so desperate to defend before they are even here? Maybe he even has a bank account set up for them.
This is a man who is serving our population, and his prayer and fanaticism make me wonder what he stands for on the politics of our town.
Charlotte Stuart, Eureka
This article appears in Unleashed.
Why should you care? He’s an individual like everyone else. The facility is in the County and so far as I know, the site of the protests is located 2 blocks east of the City/County line.
So far as I know he’s not proclaiming he is representing his constituents nor the City in general.
I really don’t care about the issue, but you seem to have some control issues what others do regarding matters with which you have a different opinion.
Great Letter Charlotte.
Indeed, you are correct to wonder.
For the last generation, Lance and his ilk never shed a tear for the sprawl and malls saturating the Eureka area with poverty-wage jobs and the homes these new employees will never qualify for.
They don’t give a damn about the families and children that are already here. These are the folks who are required to pay the sewer bills that doubled, while suffering the loss of city and county services collapsing under the increasing demands for welfare and housing. Too many part-time, temporary, low-wage jobs and unaffordable housing manufactures poverty and the crime, drug abuse and homelessness that right wingers like Lance love to complain about.
Local plutocrat’s stranglehold on government enables them to harvest the people’s infrastructure as if it were a private gold mine. Their fortunes rest on maintaining the status-quo no matter how many working families are hurt.
There’s a long line of sycophants like Lance ready for their anointment to political office.