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‘Senate wannabe telling half truths’
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To the Editor:
Republican campaigner Doug Baker writes that Senate wannabe Ibisch is “truthful” and seeks the “truth.” How amusing considering that nearly 100 percent of what Ibisch slings at our successful senator is totally misleading and as far from the truth as possible. Lacking real evidence, Ibisch simply whips up false claims to scare local readers. Or he tells half the story and omits the rest.
For example, Ibisch’s latest twisted truth is this: alerting readers that the senator is telling city councils, county and school boards that the state may take their reserve accounts. Then Ibisch and Baker stop. Why don’t they tell the whole truth? Here’s the rest of the story - she is adamantly opposed to those potential state actions. In fact, she has called it unconscionable and that she would fight any effort by state leaders to raid money from local government. But these two Republicans won’t tell you that!
Here’s another example: Ibisch and Baker targeted veterans last year, trying to whip up their anxiety. Baker predicted that our senator would “cut the guts out of veterans programs”. The senator herself is a veteran, a former Navy officer. The real story is that the senator received top honors from many veteran groups, chaired an important veterans services study group, carried major veteran bills and, oh, did not cut the guts out of veterans programs. But they will not tell you that! The letters of Ibisch and Baker are filled with twisted truths and fear-based attacks.
Perhaps Pastor Ibisch in his quest for political office has misinterpreted the concept of separation of church and state to mean that the politician is free to separate himself from basic teachings of his church.
Kate De Keyrel
Harmony, Minn.
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