My latest letter to the editor at The Columbian - printed Thursday, Oct 14
During the current political campaigns I have adopted the motto of "The Sounds of Silence." If ads are on TV I mute them. If they're on the radio, I turn it off. Mail goes into the shredder. News items become scanned headlines. Phone calls and surveys get a quick hang-up, and highway signs get the eyes left treatment.
I refuse to be swayed by all the propaganda. I will read the voters pamphlet and perhaps watch one debate, but I have been over-saturated with info, so in my rebellion I am fighting back.
Instead of spending huge sums of money on advertising, I would prefer to vote for someone who donated funds to the homeless, or to an orphanage in Peru, or socks for foster children, or Habitat for Humanity, or a school in Africa, or you get the idea. It's sort of like raising money to be called Mr. Columbia River High School. How about contests to see who does the most good for the most people instead of lining pockets of media corporations?
