Labeling doesn’t matter

I care about big issues: women’s right to choose (which doesn’t eliminate my friends’ rights to deeply oppose abortion and others’ rights to support it); the maintenance of strong unions which allowed my father, a construction worker, to make a decent salary while working and have a retirement that included health care; the financial health of our agriculture and manufacturing industries instead of tariffs that immediately affect farmers and will ultimately impact the manufacturing industry and consumers; medical coverage that is affordable and available for all instead of a plan that places those with preexisting conditions in a separate category and thus drastically increases the cost - to name a few.

Labels of liberal or conservative, Republican, Democrat or Independent matter less. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ latest and negative advertisements invite voters to label Lisa Brown as liberal and dismiss her. However, Lisa evidences clarity and vision around the big issues that matter to Eastern Washington and me. I will vote for Lisa Brown and leave the labeling to Cathy McMorris Rodgers.

Mary Roe

Spokane