Really good LTE in Small Town Newspaper

[HootieMcBoob]

This is a letter to the editor that I happened across. It's in a local newspaper in the small western Pennsylvania town that I grew up in. The paper itself is really rather conservative but more and more I've been seeing letters to the edior like this in there. This one I thought was particularly good and I hope the person who wrote it won't mind my sharing it with DU.

Liberal has become a dirty word. I consider myself a flaming liberal.

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Here's the whole thing:

http://www.observer-reporter.com/285529769842020.bsp

I think letters like this are extremely important because it's a sign that small town America is begining to wake up.

[Melsky]

1. Great letter!

I could not have put it better myself. Nice to see that kind of thing coming from a small town.

[flakey_foont]

2. Thank You for sharing that

[randr]

3. Sent to all local papers in Western Colorado

[HootieMcBoob]

5. Do you mean you sent it?

Or you saw the same letter in those papers?

[randr]

6. No-I forwarded it for possible publication.

[heidiho]

4. I also grew up in western pa (washington)

and I'm proud to see people speaking up there.