Hide-and-seek with CMR

Cathy McMorris Rodgers has avoided large groups of constituents since last summer’s Gonzaga Town Hall. Without advertising or public Facebook events “Conversations with Cathy” were scheduled this past week; intimate events allow Cathy to claim outreach, albeit with the smallest contact possible.

Cathy’s office offered this response to criticism of her consistently declining invitations to town halls by local Indivisible groups: “These are ultra-left groups using their Westside money to ask misleading questions, push a Seattle agenda on eastern Washington and then have the audacity to call them public forums,” (The Stranger, May 29, 2018).

Our local group has yet to see any West Side money, nor have we been approached by Seattleites with an agenda. Nor do we think it audacious to want answers to questions that affect our district. Our goal is a representative who represents the best interest of our district.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers happily accepts money from dark-money PACs, big business and the NRA. Cathy’s silence on the disturbing current culture in D.C., including interference in the Mueller investigation, and inappropriate attacks on our justice system and law enforcement, reinforces that she has her own and her party’s best interest in mind, not ours. Lisa Brown has our enthusiastic endorsement.

Katherine Schutte

Newport