Eggers Campaign Flyer Reprehensible
(I) received in the mail what has to be the most reprehensible piece put out in recent memory.
Issued by one of the many Republican candidates in the 73rd Assembly District primary, its entire front page in super graphics asks, “Why does it take Welfare checks to help stop a riot?”
On the inside page the text continues, “The savagery and arson stopped on May 1, the day the welfare checks arrived.”
Then the candidate, with mind-boggling illogic, gives his own solution: “Mike Eggers wants to cut welfare now!”
Say what? If you agree with Eggers’ premise that the arrival of welfare checks stopped the rioting (I don’t), then what he is proposing would surely result in more riots.
Such inflammatory nonsense would ordinarily be dismissed as just another hilarious foot-in-mouth blunder by a political hack, but the consequences of the recent lawlessness and civil disorder are of such immense proportion that it certainly disqualifies the sponsor of such a piece for consideration as a candidate for any office.
Just as disturbing is that more than just a few local politicians lent their names to this trashy flyer, which should be repudiated by the Republican Party.
THOMAS C. ROGERS
San Juan Capistrano
Thomas C. Rogers is a former chairman of the Orange County Republican Central Committee.
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