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[Eric J in MN]

Jan. 26, 2005

A disgrace to Minnesota

Sen. Mark Dayton disgraced Minnesota this week when he went to the floor of the U.S. Senate to call Condoleezza Rice such names as "liar" and "un-American."

This attempt to preemptively damage our new secretary of state for political purposes is appalling. Minnesotans would have been better off had Dayton kept his Senate office closed.

Chris Johnson, Janesville, Minn.

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(If I reply to this letter, they won't print it because it's too soon after they printed two other letters I wrote).

[Dickie Flatt]

1. Remember to include your personal info when writing!

Full name, city, address, phone. I think that's what you need.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Right (nt)

nt

[kcass1954]

3. Done!

I forgot to give them my address. Should I re-send?

Here's what I wrote:


I complete disagree with the comments made by Chris Johnson in your January 26 edition. Senator Dayton is not attempting to damage Dr. Rice but rather to call attention to the numerous lies that she told to the American people regarding the war in Iraq. Our country would be much better off if our politicians would truly adopt "Honesty is the best policy" and let the American people make decisions and opinions based on correct information. I wish all of our senators would learn from Senator Dayton and join him.

[Eric J in MN]

4. Good letter. My advice

re-send, writing on top:

Note to Letters Page editor: I sent this yesterday but didn't include my address.

Include your phone number below your address.

Also, make these small changes:


Regarding the Jan. 26 letter which implied Senator Dayton is attempting to damage Condoleeza Rice's integrity:

Senator Dayton is in fact calling attention to the numerous lies that Dr. Rice told the American people regarding the war in Iraq.

Our country would be much better off if our politicians would truly adopt "Honesty is the best policy" and let the American people make decisions and opinions based on correct information. I wish all of our senators would learn from Senator Dayton and join him.


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I sent dozens of letters to the editor which weren't published starting with the phrase "I disagree," before I noticed that the editors avoid letters with that start.


Also, the Star Tribune prefers that responses to letters don't have the name of the person who wrote the original letter.

[dpbrown]

5. I repackaged my letter to Dayton from the other thread

I'm sure they won't print it, but anyway.

[Eric J in MN]

8. someone with a "D" and a "Brown" got published in the

online edition:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x6705

[dpbrown]

9. Well, alrightie then!

New meme (too hard to remember, but I love alliteration):

Kakistocratic Keystone Kosa Nostra

Can be shortened to the "Keystone Kosa Nostra" for effect.

DPB

[Eric J in MN]

6. here are the responses they printed

If you wrote and they didn't print yours, they still probably printed more letter with your position because you expressed it.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/563/5209133.html

Letters from readers
January 28, 2005 EL

Minnesota's truth teller

The Jan. 27 letter writer who characterized Sen. Mark Dayton's accusations against Condoleezza Rice as an "attempt to preemptively damage our new secretary of state for political purposes" is truly living in denial.

Read the record of her statements, both before and after the war began. Dayton had it exactly right, and it was refreshing, for once, to hear a U.S. senator call it for what it truly is: Rice lied, period. She lied to Dayton, to the Senate, to the country and the world. Even worse, when called to account for it by Sen. Barbara Boxer and others, she changed the subject.

One can euphemistically refer to "misleading information,"falsifications,"exaggerations" or "untruths." But even the most legalistic twisting of logic can't alter basic morality. As a parent would tell his child, a lie is still a lie.

Thank you, Sen. Dayton.

Mark Rosenwinkel, Minneapolis.

I'd like to thank Sen. Mark Dayton for standing up in opposition to the appointment of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state.

It's a sad day for America when lying and incompetence are promoted.

Liz Trister, Bloomington.

I applaud Sen. Mark Dayton's willingness to stand up and be heard. The last thing our country needs is another "rubber-stamp" politician blindly following the Bush administration's failing policies.

Only time will reveal the truth to our divided country on this issue. Unfortunately this commodity comes at a great cost as we continue to lose young American soldiers and Iraqi civilians on a daily basis.

Clay B. DuVal, Golden Valley.

I am proud of Mark Dayton for his outspoken comments against the confirmation of Condoleezza Rice for secretary of state.

I am proud that my senator did not lie down and play dead like so many other politicians in Washington. Dayton spoke out against the lies of the administration of which Rice is a member.

I am also proud of Sen. Robert Byrd for speaking out against Rice's abuse of fear-based language and misleading rhetoric.

If Rice's integrity can be impugned by directly quoting her own words, then she is solely responsible for any damage done to the public's perception of her character.

Truthful objections to a nominee should not be spun, demonized or labeled "partisan."

Meghan Townsend, Edina.

Not a Dayton fan

Because of his kind of warped thinking, we will see Mark Dayton permanently close his Senate office in 2006.

Larry A. Sorenson, Arlington, Minn.

[Demrock6]

7. Just read them. Any DUers? n/t