Congress Approves Payments to Japanese-American Internees
Rep. Bentley said her husband, a Korean War veteran, threatened to divorce her if she voted for the bill. She voted against it.
I too am a Korean War veteran, and I see no connection between my participation in that conflict, and payment to U.S. citizens, unjustly interned, eight years earlier. As I recall, some Japanese-Americans (some of them World War II veterans as well) also fought in the Korean War. Perhaps “they all look alike” to Bentley’s husband?
As to Bentley’s husband threatening to divorce her if she didn’t vote a certain way, isn’t that coercion of a legislator? And isn’t that against the law?
I suppose that in light of recent disclosures of improprieties verging upon the criminal among Republican administrators, this is small potatoes. But I’m sure glad Bently doesn’t represent me, and her constituency has my deepest sympathies.
TOM BETHANCOURT
Alta Loma
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