Oregon not dumb enough to re-elect Kitzhaber

Letter date: 
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Letter publisher: 
Statesman Journal
Letter author: 
Jim Elvin
Letter body: 

The Oregon voters have made some real mistakes in the past and one of those mistakes was to elect John Kitzhaber as our governor.

He has no respect for the concerns or wishes of those who elected him, whether it’s the capital punishment that we voted in, the illegal alien nightmare or anything else that doesn’t fit his thoughts in the matter.

He must think that we should be proud of him while he misrepresents us, wearing blue jeans and cowboy boots.

He welcomes the illegal alien here for us to care for with our tax dollars. If he was doing that with his own money, that might look a little better except for the illegal aspect, which he has a tendency to ignore. But there again he has little concern for our wishes or our money.

The one thing that Kitzhaber is very good at is making his opponent, Dennis Richardson, look like the best choice in November.

The Oregon voters surely aren’t dumb enough to re-elect a governor who refuses to represent us.

We’ll be OK if we can just get the voters with a little common sense to vote.