Public Education Is State’s Future

I am 53 years old, a lifelong Republican who first voted in 1960 for Republican candidates.

During this entire budget debacle I, as I presume many others, became increasingly irritated at the posturing and paucity of leadership by some elected officials and the Legislature.

At the end I was disgusted by Gov. Wilson’s stonewalling/take-no-prisoners performance regarding the effective gutting of Proposition 98. Clearly, public education is the future for our state. It needs to be repaired, not strangled.

Gov. Wilson is shamefully pandering to the far-right wing of our party and the religious right-wingers to prove, at all costs, that he is ideologically pure and worthy of their support in 1994, perhaps even 1996 as a presidential or vice presidential possibility.

In my view, Gov. Wilson is now completely in bed with the mean-spirited, ideological purists and religious “dirt bags” who infect our party. These people are neither kind nor caring. They simply want total surrender to their one-dimensional view of all that is and ever shall be.

LARRY MURRAY

Anaheim