Fund-Raising

Re “GOP House Members Get Fund-Raising Quotas,” June 15: How does it not make front-page news when the House Republicans plan on linking committee positions to fund-raising? The seniority system, for all of its flaws, at least avoided bribery. The media are supposedly biased toward Democrats, but Bill Clinton’s renting of the Lincoln Bedroom made headlines while House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s sale of committee positions is buried inside the paper. This is precisely the kind of corruption that Sen. John McCain campaigned against. If the Democrats weren’t just as corrupt, this issue alone would determine my vote.

ALEX SMALL

Goleta