Many thanks for your prescient headline “People over party,” celebrating the leading role of our own congressional representative, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (The Columbian, Nov. 15). It reminded me of a truly refreshing definition of politics by Corrine McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson: “Politics is the way we live our lives. It is not running for office. It is the way we treat each other … It is the way we treat our environment. It is the way we treat ourselves. … The new emerging paradigm could be called, ‘Politics as if people mattered.’ ”
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Letter: Perez embraces refreshing approach
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