Special Interests

Re Michael Ramirez’s Dec. 23 cartoon, “Have a merry Bradley-Gore Christmas”: If Ramirez is going to become your right-wing hit artist, would it be possible to get somebody at the paper to, at least, check the facts before his Republican propaganda is published? This cartoon indicated that Al Gore and Bill Bradley have filled the stockings of the special interests and given the taxpayers the bill. The last time I looked, George W. Bush had raised over $67 million from these special interests.

Nationally, Republicans get substantially more from special interests than Democrats. Yet Ramirez’s cartoon focuses on Democrats. Political cartoonists are funny when they reveal a telling truth. By ignoring the essential truth of special interest support for the right, Ramirez becomes a propagandist.

JIM CORBETT

San Clemente