Letters to the editor March 11

An embarrassment

I have never read such an arrogant response as that from Rep. John Fitzpatrick and his attitude towards the arts and cultural organizations of Montana (Miscommunication results in loss of funding for Flathead Valley arts programs).  

How does someone so pompous, arrogant and disrespectful get elected? He is an embarrassment to the Montana Republican Party. We can only hope his insults will be overruled and the organizations that were denied will be getting the funding they are counting on.

— Mike Warning, Whitefish

Earn our respect

As a lifelong Republican I am becoming tired of a Legislature demanding the trappings of respect and having their feelings hurt because they have not been shown the respect, they think they deserve. My respect is earned not given freely, especially to those who continue to focus on irrelevant matters or trying to control the actions of others. All the while neglecting the problems of housing and ever-increasing taxes. 

I will at all times give my state legislators the respect they have earned which at present is little to none.  

— Daryl Smail, Marion