October 2018

To the editor:

Obviously Trump stratigically orchestrated his fix during the entire process of the Kanaganugh confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.

If Senators Flake and Manchin and the rest of those involved in their political swam see the Kavanaugh confirmation as a win, it loses much of its meaning in the sense of truth.

Mocking Dr. Ford’s testimony does not diminish her painful experience and her memory of her assaulter Brett Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh’s testimony wasn’t anything a person would expect from a judge who wanted to be on the highest court, in honor of our constitution.

In fact, his explosive emotional outburst of anger, crying and sniveling while he venomously accused the Democrats and the Clintons for trying to destroy his reputation and family.

During his aggressive rant, it seems to me he was covering jp, his pent-up guilt feelings which surfaced out of Dr. Ford’s testimony.

By Katy G. Wilkens

Home-cooked meals are always your healthiest choice. They will almost always contain less salt than takeout options or processed foods, but may take time to prepare. Using a microwave oven is a great way to cut back on the time you spend cooking.

By Jean Godden    

One answer to the rage-fueled backlash over sexual-abuse reports is remembering the example set by Washington's own Sen. Patty Murray. Her career spans the years between the Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford hearings.

Patty Murray first entered politics in the 1980s. She was a Shoreline School Board member when she traveled in Olympia to oppose cuts in the preschool budget. When told by a state senator that she wouldn't succeed because she was a mere "mom in tennis shoes," she ran for state senate and beat a two-term incumbent.

In October, 1991, State Senator Murray, like many of us, watched the Senate hearings that ridiculed Anita Hill's charges against Clarence Thomas. Outrage over the Senate's old-boy treatment of Hill convinced Murray to do the almost unthinkable: resolve to run in the next year's Democratic primary against Washington's Senator Brock Adams.