Readers React: A longtime GOP operative says Hillary Clinton is untrustworthy. Big surprise

To the editor: As a leading national newspaper, it is appropriate for you to run editorials about our current political environment written by well-known commentators such as Frank Luntz. (“The 2016 presidential election will be determined by the ‘none of the above’ voters,” Opinion, June 1)

What is inappropriate is to run his assessment of Hilary Clinton’s untrustworthiness without identifying him as a Republican political operative who has spent the last 20-plus years spreading information designed to undermine public confidence in her. Readers unfamiliar with Luntz’s background would not pick up on it by the identifying credentials published with the article.

How can you expect readers to assess the validity of his claims without knowing that information?

Cathy Boggs, Santa Monica

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To the editor: I have to agree with Luntz’s assessment that the undecided voters in the very few states that will determine our next president will pin most of their analysis on character issues. More’s the pity.

The next president will determine the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court for perhaps the next 30 years, and there can’t be a more delineated difference between the two presumptive nominees. Clinton will take the court left and Trump will take it right. All other issues figure to get bogged down in a divided Congress and the court is probably the only issue that will and must be settled.

To decide one’s vote on character in this particular election just gets in the way of what each of us, liberal or conservative, must decide to move the country forward.

Ron Garber, Duarte

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