Experience and character matters

Editor,

It is a given that congressional candidates will tout accomplishments and celebrate differences. I support Kevin Mullin for many reasons, not the least is experience.

(1) comment

Terence Y Jan 5, 2022 10:38am

Unfortunately Dr. Caro, the biggest issue with your analogy is that physicians become physicians after finding a way to foot the bill for their education. Afterwards OpenPayments lists direct and indirect contributions to physicians. Folks like Kevin Mullin may have other people, especially lobbyists, footing the bill for their campaigns, expecting quid pro quo for paying those bills if elected. Perhaps we need something akin to the OpenPayments site for politicians, so we can see who is buying influence or trading goods and services in addition to supplying cash to candidates. We can then compare whether politicians are actually representing their constituents or special interests. With Mr. Mullin, one can easily FollowTheMoney and Mr. Mullins voting record to get an idea of whether Mr. Mullin is listening to his constituents or doing the bidding of his contributors. Do Mr. Mullin’s actions exhibit character, or have his “hard” decisions already been made for him? I’ll let people make their own decision after doing the research.