MidlandToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to a letter regarding candidates meetings, published May 24.
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It was interesting to read Doug Lewis’s letter the other day — in effect a glimpse into the Progressive Conservatives’ Political Science 101 primer — in which he explained to we, the uninformed electorate, the “strategic” justification for an incumbent candidate to avoid those messy little “issue-driven” public meetings held at election time, the ones where she might be required to provide a considered response to an issue that she would prefer to avoid.
Winston Churchill was once reputed to have said, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” He didn’t, in fact, say it. Nevertheless one gets the sense that Mr. Lewis and his candidate would heartily agree with the sentiment.
Wilf Argue
Midland
