Dear Editor,

For those truly independent voters who may still be undecided, here are a few points to ponder.   

Kamala Harris is not a felon. She’s never been indicted. She’s never been found liable for sexual assault / rape or defamation. Her company, and her children, have not been barred from doing business in New York State because of fraud. She has not “pardoned” multiple advisors who were convicted felons (Michael Flynne, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, etc.). She has not played it fast and loose with porn stars and then paid them off to keep them quiet, while her spouse was home with a newborn. She will use donations to fund her campaign, not pay for criminal attorneys. 

She respects democracy and will accept defeat if she loses. She will not incite and send an armed mob to the capital, or anywhere else, to kill Tim Walz. She will not bring home highly classified documents by the truckload, lie to her own lawyers, and then hide them when the Feds come to look for them.

Project 2025 is not her agenda. Quite the opposite. She will fight to get back the rights we have already lost. She believes that the government should stay out of our bedrooms and doctors’ offices. She finds it unacceptable that women are being refused healthcare, losing their lives or their health in the process. She will not disable government agencies by closing them or replacing long-term civil servants with “loyalists”.

She is not enamored with dictators. She believes that assault rifles have no place among civilians and in general, we need safer gun laws. She will fight for this. She will concern herself with the well-being of all Americans, including Republicans, and not just a small subset… just look at the diverse crowd at the DNC.

She’s a dignified adult. She doesn’t call people juvenile names. She doesn’t intentionally mispronounce names. She actually has an agenda that will propel our great country forward toward a “more perfect union”, and not pull us back into a divisive universe.

If you followed all this, you know that Trump did all these things (and much more) and continues to defend his actions. It’s time to come out of your fox holes and take a stand for our collective future. 

Bill Thibedeau

Gilpin County