Woodward tells it like it is

When I was a child they were called bums. At some point in our increasingly politically correct world, liberals declared the term to be disrespectful. They should be called “homeless” instead. So for the past couple decades that’s been the term.

A recent letter is critical of mayoral candidate Nadine Woodward for showing a video of a homeless person assaulting a security officer in our downtown library, and even calls the homeless man who made the assault a “library patron, (“A disappointing revelation,” Mary Ann Murphy, June 5).

Ms. Woodward is on record when providing the video as stating that we need to take control of our homeless situation. Thank God that someone running for office finally has the guts to say it! Major cities in America have mistreated the homeless situation by allowing them to do anything and everything they wish, short of physical assault. Now we are criticizing a political candidate who dares to speak up against a physical assault in our library?

When we allow people to do just about anything they want to do, some people will do just about anything they want to do. It’s far past time to change the way we deal with the homeless. I’m voting for Nadine Woodward.

Hal Dixon

Spokane