Great letters to the editor today from two classy Republicans

Fond du Lac Reporter
Posted October 12, 2006

Letter got it wrong about Van Hollen ad
J.B. Van Hollen has proven experience as a district attorney and a U.S. attorney. He would bring this experience to the office of attorney general. And yes, he will prosecute crime.

A recent letter stated that Van Hollen would not prosecute criminal cases if he were elected. The writer misrepresents the ad for Van Hollen. The ad states that Van Hollen will not make environmental cases the focus of his office when elected to the attorney general's office.

A review of the press releases for October from the Wisconsin Department of Justice shows five releases all dealing with environmental issues. No mention of prosecutions of drug dealers, sex offenders or other criminal activity.

Ask your neighbors what the greatest criminal threat is in their lives and I am certain they won't respond that it is the cranberry farms they fear the most.

This state needs J.B. Van Hollen as attorney general to put the Department of Justice back on track.

F. Cary McQuitty

Fond du Lac

Campaign ads on TV miss the point
In case no one has noticed, this is an election year. No, the president is not running for anything, but you wouldn't know that by some of the ads I've seen on TV.

Why do the Democrats think that no matter what the office their candidate is running for, they are running against the president? The governor of this state should be concerned with what's going on in this state, not what has been happening in Washington, D.C.

Wisconsin has some of the highest taxes in the country -- gas, property, etc. Businesses aren't coming here, thanks to the hostile environment created by the DNR, Attorney General Lautenschlager and our governor.

How many opportunities for jobs in this state have been lost thanks to the policies of our liberal governor and his minions? A perfect example of this would be the recent case of Menards relocating 600 to 800 jobs to Iowa.

Many of the television ads being run by the Democrats and Governor Doyle state that Mark Green voted with the president a large percentage of the time. That's really interesting, since the president doesn't create bills; Congress does. The president just signs or vetoes them.

Isn't it a shame that no one producing those ads seems to have ever read the Constitution?

Kate Wagner

Waupun