ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Thursday, October 31, 1996             TAG: 9610310002
SECTION: EDITORIAL                PAGE: A10  EDITION: METRO 
                                             TYPE: LETTERS 

DON'T FORGET PEROT'S TAKE ON THE PRESIDENT

REGARDING YOUR Oct. 25 news article concerning Ross Perot's speech (``To Dole, no, Perot won't go''):

It was interesting and revealing, considering your liberal slant, that you neglected to report what Perot said about Bill Clinton: ``We are headed for a second Watergate with all this stuff going on and a constitutional crisis in 1997. If you love this country and your children, how could you even consider voting for a candidate that has huge moral, ethical and criminal problems facing him.''

G. WAYNE FRALIN

ROANOKE

Anti-Clinton venom isn't justified

I DIDN'T think the anti-Clinton venom could get much worse, but I was wrong. Where has the president gone wrong? According to all these sanctimonious judges who write to the newspaper, he can do nothing right. A growing economy, lower crime rates and mortgage rates, booming house sales - the list goes on.

The hatred that these letter writers seem to have for the Clintons must make their lives miserable. If Bob Dole were elected president, I would respect him and try to lift him up in words and deeds. With three grown daughters, I am proud of the legislation Clinton has pushed through to make their lives better.

Come on, guys, calm down. Your horns are showing!

BOB GREGORY

ROANOKE

Senator's record shows weaknesses

SEN. JOHN Warner can fake a photograph, but he can't run from his record.

No Democrat or independent who disagrees with the ``Christian'' Coalition's agenda should vote for the incumbent senator. Whether this man, twice divorced from very wealthy women, has the blessing of Pat Robertson, the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Ralph Reed in this race doesn't matter since he has a 100 percent record of voting the way they want him to. He also earned a 100 percent rating from the Right to Life Committee, and a 75 percent rating from the National Rifle Association.

He gets 0 percent from the National Council of Senior Citizens, 7 percent from environmental interests and 10 percent from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The above information comes from the Center for National Independence in Politics, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded by Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, George McGovern and many other important people of both parties - including Newt Gingrich.

ANNA B. MITCHELL

BLACKSBURG

Goodlatte fights wasteful spending

IF ANYBODY ever needed a friend in Washington, it's the beleaguered taxpayer. Politicians keep wasting our money on ill-conceived big-government boondoggles. Then they cheerfully hand us the bill, which gets bigger every year.

Well, I am glad to see that Bob Goodlatte has been voting to end this free-for-all spendathon in Washington. He has been cited by countless watchdog groups like the National Taxpayers Union and Citizens Against Government Waste as someone who consistently votes against wasteful spending.

In order for government to balance the budget and end the deficit that will burden our children and grandchildren, we need common-sense approaches and fiscally sound ideas. Goodlatte has given us this type of leadership. We need to keep him in Congress.

LEO TRENOR

ROANOKE

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