The following is a letter to the editor I sent to the Riverside Press Enterprise on February 6, 2009. It should provide proof that voices other than from the far Right-Wing do send in letters to local papers. Now, if only our generally right-leaning publishers would actually publish them, that would be a welcome change.
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Dear Editor:
Our local Republican legislators, both state and federal, are all playing a dangerous game with our future as Americans and Californians. To a person, they are holding fast to positions that keep realistic solutions from being reached. Local state GOP office holders are delusional in their "No New Taxes" stand. That stand cannot prevail in the face of the projected budget shortfall of $42 billion. Similarly, our federal GOP office holders are holding up our President and the Democrat's proposal to meet the challenges we face economically with offering anything remotely sufficient as an alternative. They simply regurgitate the kind of solutions that brought us to where we are today.

Local voters, mostly Republicans, have got to free their legislators to act on today's problems with new approaches. There is no alternative. We have not seen the worst of it yet. The multi-trillion dollar financial and stock bubble that burst in 2008 is still to be joined by the multi-trillion dollar derivatives bubble that has yet to burst. It will burst, and when it does, the piddling ideas of today's GOP will seem like cruel jokes. As it is, the huge Democrat bill that is being widely criticized as something of a drunken spending spree is likely to be inadequate. We will wish we had gone futher in 2009. Turn off the Reagan-era tape from the last thirty years and get real with today. We don't have time to lose.
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Other letters to the editors of local papers will be shared via this blog in upcoming weeks. Included will be blasts from the past, perhaps even back into the 80s, when this blogger was one of only a few steady voices that confronted the pall of ignorance that fell on local ears and eyes over the issue of AIDS and gay rights.