Letter to the Editor: Barbara Ostipwko

Spin is something invented by politicians to justify actions considered unacceptable by their constituents. They try to make the reprehensible more palatable for everyday citizens, people like you and I. Brent Regan’s My Turn in Last Saturday’s CDAPress is a case in point. It has little to do with truth and everything to do with spin. He claimed the January 6 hearings were a Democratic scheme. If that’s the case, why are most witnesses Republican? In fact, I was surprised at how many high ranking Republicans with courage and conviction testified. It gave me hope for our political system when these people spoke. They stayed true to their oaths to the U.S. Constitution and their state. Witnesses included members of the election staff, Cabinet, attorneys to the White House and Mike Pence. There were many more. Rusty Bowers, the Republican Speaker of Arizona insisted Giuliani provide evidence of election fraud. Giuliani told him, “We have theories, no evidence.” When there is testimony that states there is no evidence of election fraud, only theories, how can the election be stolen? Even now, after two years, no one has produced enough evidence to change the election. (YouTube is showing the full hearings. Watch and decide for yourself.) The January 6 committee IS bi-partisan, created when Republicans refused to appoint an outside commission to investigate. Claiming the commission is a hoax discounts the testimony of about twenty upstanding Republicans, and is being done so we voters won’t think for ourselves. That is the very definition of spin.