Reading Lou Brancaccio’s May 18 column, “Little support for the M&M boys?” I’m sure that it came as no surprise to Brancaccio that he got no response from Republican legislators and officials over this mess that Clark County Commissars David Madore and Tom Mielke have created. I know he has been around long enough to be aware of the long-standing unwritten Republican rule, namely, to speak nothing bad about a fellow Republican. No matter how outrageous or heinous the act, they will say nothing. Of course, they will be out in full-blown outrage if it was a Democrat doing something wrong.
I’ve always believed that if you see something wrong being done, you should speak up; and by keeping quiet, you are condoning that wrong. The Republicans will continue to say nothing because this is just more of the same from their dirty tricks playbook.
Terry Viertel
Vancouver
