Last week I attended a town hall in Grand Marais. The town hall was not in support of any particular candidate or political party, but instead was an opportunity for people to come together to speak their minds. About 100 people from the community attended. Most talked about how they and their families have been hurt by the Trump administration’s ongoing destruction of the nation’s social infrastructure. They talked about how the devastation of federal services is crippling everything from forest management and firefighting, to food programs, to health care, to education and library support, to weather forecasting. Underlying the moving stories people told of their fear, anger, and loss was the sense that people in Washington simply don’t care about us.
Among those who just don’t care is our own congressional representative, Pete Stauber. We would expect him to be standing up for Minnesotans and speaking out against the upending of people’s lives. But he does not. Apparently, he has neither the courage nor the integrity for that. Instead, he does whatever the Washington billionaires tell him to do. We deserve better. Stauber should resign immediately and be replaced by someone who actually cares.
Charles Hathaway
Grand Marais