What a truly bizarre letter. Increasing jail and prison beds has been a right-wing priority for almost my entire life. Seriously, when was the last time a non-Republican ran for office as a "Law and Order" candidate?

As to the funding woes in our education system, it wasn't liberals who pushed our taxes so low that we can't educate our children. It is a rare right-winger who doesn't love lowering taxes no matter the consequences.

The state of our county, state and nation is far from healthy. However, we have reached this situation because of nearly four-decades of right-wing dominance at the national level that has led to everyone thinking we can do everything on the cheap and that government is always the problem. Frankly, I find things like burning rivers to be more of a problem, but I'm not a right-winger.