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Editor,
After reading this weeks’ ‘A word in Response’ by Sen. Hertz, it is so disrespectfully and blatantly presented it drew my ire.
His says the current elected Republican supermajority is proof and evidence of what direction the citizens of Montana want our state to take.
He chooses to ignore our most recent statewide, non-political party affiliated, vote. A huge majority voted no to changes in our constitution that would have restricted one’s right to an abortion and subjected medical assistance involved to civil and criminal punishment.
The legislative supermajority he speaks of is not representative of our state as a whole and in fact is merely a result of previous and continual political maneuvers (gerrymandering), dicing and piecing how state representation will be elected in spite of geographical similarities or population.
If this view were not true how else does one explain his supermajority elected members usurping the rule of law the people of Montana have chosen. He is one of those who uses his power and position primarily for self-interests, negating what we the people have voted for.
And the audacity to write an article like he did is a disregard and slap in the face to the vast majority of Montanans, no matter their party affiliation.
Rich Bell
Polson
