Letter: Reid has public’s best interest at heart

Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | 7:38 a.m.

Despite recent comments in a letter to the editor the other day from my extremely competent eye doctor, Jack Kane ("Reid puts hypocrisy on display at ringside," June 3), I wholeheartedly concur with the letter that preceded it from Elliot Anderson concerning the GOP becoming desperate and searching for distractions.

Sen. Harry Reid is such an asset to this state in more ways than I have space to comment. He is the one public servant I find myself more times shaking my head affirmatively with versus trying to figure out what the heck Sen. John Ensign and Congressman Jon Porter, for example, are doing to better the lives of "all" Nevadans.

You have to wonder if they realize they work for "all" of us, not just how the Beltway GOP or former Rep. Tom DeLay wants them to vote. Independent thoughts and actions are as important as having 20/20 vision is to me and believe you me, I see eye to eye with Sen. Reid.

Over the past few years, watching these men at different times discussing topics with political commentator Jon Ralston on his great show "Face to Face," you'd have to be blind not to see Sen. Reid has the public's best interest at heart. My calls and e-mails to Congressman Porter's office, for example, go unreturned, because his world revolves around "my way or the highway." Like we shrink from the homeless in our society instead of embracing them, he shrinks from those who are not "one of us." Sound familiar, folks? Like our sad president's view as well?

See you in the doctor's chair soon, Jack. Wonder what we'll discuss?

Brian Riemann, Las Vegas