Senate Rebuke of Cranston

I am in shock that the Senate would allow Cranston to respond to the reprimand issued by the Ethics Committee.

I am even further shocked that the same committee would allow the senator to intimidate their actions by a threat of exposure of perhaps committee members and other senators who have acted in the same repugnant manner that Cranston has been found guilty of.

If what Cranston says is true, that he acted no differently than the rest of the Senate, and if he in fact has the proof, then it is his duty to make public the repugnant actions by his fellow senators. But if he was just making veiled threats against the committee to scare them into a milder or even a no-action resolution, which he received, Cranston should take the proper steps and resign from the Senate before the end of his term in 1992.

The reputation of the Senate is at a low level. As voters, do we dare allow it to sink any lower?

RICHARD GRUBBS

Fullerton