Keeping America in the Dark
Dear Editor,
U.S. Representative Mullin wrote a worrying article in last week‚s TIMES. He mentioned President Biden 11 times, each and every mention was negative. Keeping America in the Dark was Mullins‚s title and his theme. He is running for the job of United States Senator, yet he offers no positive ideas for America other than keeping it in the dark.
A political campaign is an application for a job, in this case a very important job and filling the application with negatives and mo...
Dear Editor,
U.S. Representative Mullin wrote a worrying article in last week‚s TIMES. He mentioned President Biden 11 times, each and every mention was negative. Keeping America in the Dark was Mullins‚s title and his theme. He is running for the job of United States Senator, yet he offers no positive ideas for America other than keeping it in the dark.
A political campaign is an application for a job, in this case a very important job and filling the application with negatives and more negatives is no way to get any job. A successful politician would be full of positive ideas for the future. Positive, not negative. Biden will be President until someone else is, that‚s the way our system works and pinning a campaign on the past makes no sense. In Washington about half the politicians are Republicans and the other half are Democrats and each side spends their time making sure the other side fails. Sadly both parties are good at it and little gets done. Mullin wants more gridlock, not cooperation, he‚s told us that already. Don‚t fall for it, pick a Senator with ideas for the future of all Americans red and blue.
Biden hasn‚t accomplished as much as he should and he‚s done a very poor job of promoting his victories. Take Biden‚s infrastructure bill for example, it‚s full of good things like improving highways and bridges and traditional stuff like that, but also $7.5 Billion dollars for electric car and truck charging stations. Interstate-40 provides Sallisaw an opportunity to become THE electric charging stopover, snagging some of the money already flowing in one end of town and right on out the other. We could have stations adjacent to motels and shopping areas and build a reputation for the best place to stay. The money is there and a good Representative or Senator would be getting our share but politicians like Mullin prefer to keep us “in the dark” rather than admitting that Biden did anything good.
Please, everyone, choose a politician who has good ideas about the future rather than bad ideas about the past. Hopefully the TIMES will give equal space to T. W. Shannon who will be running against Mullin on August 23. Is Shannon better? I don‚t know but it would be good to hear his plans.
DARRYL PHILLIPS, SALLISAW
