Insurer Contributions
Re “Bill to Limit Contributions by Insurers Failing,” Aug. 29:
Is anyone really surprised that a bunch of cynical, self-serving, predatory members of the Assembly would vote down limitations on the amount of money the insurance companies can contribute (read bribe) to the state insurance commissioner, after Chuck Quackenbush has demonstrated how greed can corrupt the office?
Their mealy-mouthed, duplicitous excuses for opposing the bill are an insult to the intelligence of California voters. Worse, they actually think the public swallows it.
No wonder that the talented, ethical people among us who might serve the electorate honestly want nothing to do with the sordid business of politics.
CHARLES F. QUEENAN
Encino
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Why is it so easy to condemn the corrupted, i.e., Quackenbush, and not his corrupters? Unlike the snake, who has had a bad name since the Garden of Eden, the insurance companies were let off the hook by our legislators, who seem to forget, once they are elected, that they are supposed to serve the people, not their present (or promised) campaign contributors.
MARYLYN TABER
Chatsworth
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