Letter: Bush has been bad for Nevada

Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2003 | 8:37 a.m.

I am glad that the Sun always finds time to take a thoughtful position on some local matter that sets it apart from the rest of the local media machine.

I enjoyed and very much concur with your Sept. 14 editorial, which criticizes Gov. Kenny Guinn for taking an active role in President Bush's re-election campaign even though Bush supports the opening of Yucca Mountain.

Do all of the state Republican officials automatically fall into place when the national Republicans snap their fingers? Gov. Guinn may be retiring from public life soon, so it may not matter to him.

Nevada is still a politically weak state -- that is how Yucca Mountain got shoved down our collective throat. The five electoral votes may or may not be important in the next presidential election. But how is the Bush administration a friend to Nevada? How could anybody from the national Republican administration come to Nevada looking for campaign donations and not feel a little guilty about it?

MARK BRADSHAW