Seems The Columbian Editor Lou Brancaccio and Editorial Page Editor Greg Jayne can’t get a straight answer out of any of our politicians. Brancaccio’s questions for Clark County Commissioner David Madore, Rep. Liz Pike, R-Camas, and Sen. Ann Rivers, R-La Center, in regard to the bridge became a merry-go-round of equivocation. (Read Brancaccio’s Aug. 23 column “The east county bridge mystery.”) Jayne’s questions to Pike in regard to required school funding — same thing. (Read the Aug. 25 “Political beat” column.)
These politicians should remember the editors’ questions are the people’s questions. Equivocation, arrogance, finger-pointing, and silence point to the fact we need different politicians.
The tired rhetoric from Pike that “budget cutting, regulation removal” will generate $3.8 billion for a bridge and $4 billion for schools is quite a stretch. Her point that the controlling party, Democrats, are a problem could be agreed with as they gave Boeing and others billions in tax breaks, but I really doubt she and the Republicans opposed those tax cuts.
Bill Kelley
Yacolt
