Woodrow Wilcox (Griffith) and Michael Replin (Lowell) each wrote a great Letter to the Editor in the Post-Tribune last week. Read them for yourself!

Leyva over Visclosky with anti-abortion vote
Woodrow Wilcox
Mark Leyva won the Republican nomination for Indiana’s 1st Congressional District again. But can this pro-life Hispanic get the help he needs to run against entrenched Democrat Rep. Pete Visclosky?

No Republican has won this congressional district since the 1920s. The district includes Hammond, East Chicago, Gary and other pro-union areas. Leyva is a union carpenter. Since the last census, the district has expanded to include rural communities in Lake, Porter, Jasper, Newton and Benton counties.

In 2004, Leyva received over 82,000 votes with almost nothing to spend on the campaign. What might Mark Leyva accomplish if he had a decent campaign treasury? I crunched some numbers to explore that issue.

The district has over 50,000 Hispanic voters, over 50,000 African-American voters, over 50,000 non-Hispanic Catholic voters and over 50,000 evangelical voters. Many of these voters are pro-life. Most of these voters do not know that Visclosky consistently votes in support of abortion on demand. In fact, Visclosky regularly votes to give federal money to pro-abortion organizations.

Many of Leyva’s fellow Hispanics are Catholic, as is Leyva. Many Catholics and evangelical Christians support pro-life candidates when they know that a candidate is pro-life. A growing number of African-Americans support pro-life candidates.

Republican leaders have not done much to help Leyva raise the money he needs to make sure that every voter in the district knows of this big difference between Visclosky and Leyva.

If Leyva can get just 16,000 Hispanic voters, 16,000 African-American voters and 16,000 other voters to switch their votes from Visclosky, Leyva will win.

Here’s the other one. We really relate to this guy’s frustration!

All congressmen should be ousted
Michael Replin

Congress is useless.

Gasoline is $4 a gallon and going higher every week. Who’s to blame for this problem? Congress!

Do you remember the oil embargo in 1974, which was caused by the Middle East countries, and the gasoline shortage of 1979? During this time frame, Congress should have encouraged more drilling for oil inside the United States as well as offshore. Also, more oil refineries should have been built.

This didn’t occur because it seems Congress is run by environmental, animal rights and special interest groups. So this next election in November, vote all the incumbents out of office and hire new members of Congress.

Maybe new members also will be able to solve the underfunded programs of Social Security and Medicare.

Click here for the link on the Post Tribune’s website.

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