Letter: Fanatic fringe fails to trust our legislators

Friday, Oct. 31, 2003 | 5:07 a.m.

WEEKEND EDITION

Nov. 1 -2, 2003

It is revealing to see the ultra-conservative, anti-government-regulation group now whine for more regulations. I guess they believe the voters are too stupid to know that they may be voting for a teacher, cop or firefighter in the booth, so they want to outlaw public employees from our citizen Legislature.

This band of radicals seeks to persuade voters that the same teachers who educate our children every day, and the same first responders who stand in the line of fire and rush into burning buildings for the public, go to Carson City and suddenly have no public interest at heart.

This fanatic fringe claims that public employees, whose avocations and lives depend on well-managed government, go to the Legislature as nothing more than greedy pigs. That's a pretty low opinion of the current 16 public-servant legislators, but an even lower judgment of the remaining 47 legislators whom they apparently find too dim-witted to stop them.

I say the voters are smart enough to decide who they want to represent them in Carson City.

JOHN J. CAHILL