March 24, 2019
Dear editor;
To Mrs. Angela Clay Thomas:
Enjoyed reading your Reader’s Commentary in The Voice, March 21 (click here to see).
Being outspoken, dealing with facts, is a virtue I much admire. I hope to meet with Barbara Hernandez. I spoke with her clerk in Springfield Friday and it ended in her hanging up on me. Although I do not know your position on life vs. abortion, I like to discuss issues with facts, not stoop to charging me as a caller as being rude. Rude is my summation of her words, typical I find of liberals.
When you do not possess facts you switch to name-calling. The clerk wanted to avoid answering my one question on Hernandez’s position of life, claiming ignorance, hung up on me and threatened to have my phone number put on the lock-out list. I could tell by my question that her back had stiffened up by the tone of her voice.
I was not argumentative. I called her again from my home phone and she knew my name already. To meet with Hernandez I must make an appointment with her at her office, which I will do.
I am well acquainted with Linda Chapa LaVia because I ran against her for State representative. I ran for the Right to Life.. My opinion, Chapa LaVia did not serve her constituents well. I only heard from her at election time. Now she may have done wonders for the veterans. If Hernandez is an image of Chapa LaVia, we, the average middle class, have lost. Taxes, real estate taxes, is an important issue for me. To lower them we need school funding reformed, not increased.
Joan Solms
Aurora