Clinton's legacy
Dear editor:
In response to Reggie Cowan and Citizens for the American agenda:
Maybe Hillary was invited to speak at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and Arts based on her history of helping Arkansas. She co-founded Arkansas advocates for children and families, led a task force whose recommendations helped reform Arkansas Public Schools. In 1983, she won a battle that established mandatory teacher testing, and state standards for curriculum and classroom size. In 1985, she introduced a preschool program that helped parents work with their children in preschool preparedness -- was Arkansas women on the year in 1983, and Arkansas mother of the year 1985.
Phyllis Muse
Royal
The Swamp
Dear editor:
My last letter made reference to the elites that live in the Swamp and look down on flyover country and especially places like Arkansas. They've never been here they don't want to come here. I hate to inform you if you don't already know but they disdain places like Arkansas.
We only have to look at the hacked emails and texts of Obama appointed FBI lawyers Peter Strzok and his lover Lisa Page. For some reason, he had to travel to southern Virginia. The more he got away from the bubble that surrounds D.C., including the richest counties in the country where elites like these two lived, the more he said he could smell them, especially at Walmart. Can you imagine the smell if he had gotten all the way to Arkansas, the home of Walmart? OMG the stench. This attitude is not restricted to these two elitist morons; it's a prevailing attitude in the Swamp.
I came from a long line of FDR Democrats. My parents thought he hung the moon. My older sister moved to D.C. and went to work for the DNC when JFK was in the W.H. Yes, I've actually been to the bowels of the DNC, although it was far different then -- it was actually sane by today's standards. She spent 50 years there and like many became a Swamp creature, an elitist that looked down on those in the heartland, had no use for people not living somewhere in the Northeast. She came here a few times out of necessity, funerals and such. I can tell you she couldn't wait to get to the airport and back to her Swamp creature friends. Don't remember her saying like Strzok she could smell anybody, but it wouldn't have surprised me.
Years ago, my job took me to Chicago for a year. My kids were getting ready to start school and I knew I wanted them to go to one particular rural school here. When I told her she said: You're not taking them back to that godforsaken place? Thirty-five years ago their mother and I did take them back to that godforsaken place; to the school we wanted them to attend where dedicated teachers and staff gave them what they needed to succeed. I'm happy to report they all have. In her ignorance, she couldn't have been more wrong. The proof is in the pudding. I knew exactly what I was doing.
Having said all of that, I'm proud of my sister. She danced with presidents at the W.H. I'm looking at a picture of a much younger her standing next to V.P. Hubert Humphrey when she worked in his office in the Executive Office building next to the W.H. I have an autographed picture made out to my mother from Harry Truman that she got on one of his many visits to the DNC. My mother loved him; give him hell Harry, the buck stops here, as well as other memorabilia from that era. She would go on to work for one of the largest lobbying firms on K. St., another part of the Swamp. Whew, I think I can smell them from here.
Larry Bauer
Hot Springs Village
Editorial on 04/29/2019