THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, November 14, 1995 TAG: 9511140006
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 35 lines
Your editorials, in which you attempt to tell us which is the right person to vote for, should be included in the amount of campaign money received by each candidate you endorsed as a political advertisement.
They are as one-sided as any other campaign advertisement in any newspaper, or on TV or radio, so why not treat them as campaign ads as far as dollars go? If I, as a private citizen, wanted as much space as you have used to endorse the candidate I chose, it probably would run me several thousand dollars. It probably makes you one of the largest contributors in many of their campaigns.
Then comes your editorial that ran the day before the election (``Reject dirty politics''). If most people who were prepared to vote for the candidates you endorsed read that editorial before voting, they would most likely change their minds, or not even vote. Are your editorials written by two different people not knowing what the other is saying?
The second editorial the same day contained the same kind of ``dirty politics'' you complained about in the first.
I hope your rhetoric didn't affect the outcome of any race in Hampton Roads. The people are more intelligent than you think they are and vote accordingly.
RICHARD F. GOEBEL JR.
Norfolk, Nov. 7, 1995 by CNB