GOP Guards at Santa Ana Polls
The article regarding the controversy over a GOP decision to station uniformed guards at 20 polling places in the 72nd Assembly District in heavily Latino areas of Santa Ana in Orange County was frightening in its implications of what can happen when political extremists find a nurturing atmosphere for their unfortunate ideas (Part I, Nov. 11).
The photograph of a hired guard sitting next to the ballot box depicts a scene so un-American that it is almost impossible to believe that this occurred in a neighboring county.
Thomas A. Fuentes, Republican County chairman, accepts responsibility for the decision. How can someone so impractical, and with such poor political judgment, rise to the position he holds in the GOP? What people are they who have so little confidence in our two-party system that they could actually believe that one of our parties would subvert our honored system by bringing in “vanloads of illegal citizens” to fraudulently vote? What sort of political climate spawns such a disgrace of racism, paranoia and absurdity?
Come on, Orange County, get with it. Get rid of this element. These people are a threat to our proud American traditions and to liberty itself.
GENE and BARBARA MILLER
Banning
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