Senate candidate contrasts

In a letter to the editor expressing concern about our local school boards, health board and especially library board, I made no mention of any individual or political party. But a self-proclaimed critic and announced opponent has chosen to attack me personally and show his affiliation with the party of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

Ironically, he implies that I support authoritarian power; this from the party that demands everyone get vaccinated and wear a mask and labels as “domestic terrorists” anyone who would suggest that parents should be able to make decisions about their children’s education.

In a recent speech at a lodge, my critic said that Republicans are too divisive and that only he could bring about a consensus of our citizenry. Such rhetoric is an attempt to create a “wedge issue” to bolster his shallow platform. And the next thing you know, my critic may be attacking me for my position on two books, “Lawn Boy” and “Gender Queer”; which don’t belong in our library and available to children.

I find it stunning that my critic would show such ignorance of the U.S. Constitution. His claim that the Founders designed a democracy to protect us from tyranny is typical of the liberal progressive ideology that ignores the reality that the Founders created a Representative Republic specifically to prevent the “tyranny of the majority” that is possible under democracy. In reference to my critic’s performance, I must award a less than passing grade.

My critic then attempts to claim that I have a contempt for fair and free elections. Let us look at the record. The political party my critic is affiliated with (i.e., Democrat) is the party that has advocated unlimited illegal immigration, voting by non-citizens, no voter registration to prove residency, no voter-IDs, reduction of the voter eligibility age to sixteen, universal mail-in ballots, and voting a month or more in advance of election day. How do those features ensure an election that is accurate, legitimate, and accountable? I am going to go out on a limb and guess that the two non-citizens recently arrested and charged with illegally voting in Phillips County did not vote for Conservative Republicans. Attempting to accuse me of having contempt for free and fair elections is analogous to saying that Colonel Sanders wants to protect chickens.

In an extraordinarily disingenuous statement, my critic then states that I do not understand local issues. What could be more local than expressing a concern about the agendas of the local library board, health board and school boards?

The Democrat Party with which my critic affiliates is guilty of bringing their national, liberal agendas to the local level. Critical race theory, LGBTQ demands, fearmongering of the COVID pandemic, vaccination and mask mandates are all examples that his party has attempted to impose upon the sovereign People of Flathead County. And the common thread of these agendas is to create division, chaos, fear, and anger that they wish to exploit in pursuit of their tyrannical power.

The statement that all politics are local is true. But the problems of Flathead County belong not just to us. They are shared by all freedom loving Americans.

Obtainable housing, inflation, defending liberty, supply chain shortages, rising crime, increasing mental illness issues, and the pandemic of drug and alcohol addictions are problems we all face. And the answers that my critic’s political party promote are increased governmental control, less liberty, a decreased standard of living, increasing energy prices and continued rampant inflation.

— Rep. John Fuller, R-Whitefish, is a Republican candidate for Senate District 4.