Letter Of The Day

David Yepsen ("Gingrich Preaches Radical Reconstruction of GOP," Nov. 3) stated Newt Gingrich was the architect of the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 1994.

Yepsen failed to mention that Gingrich used family values and how the Republicans were morally superior to the Democrats.

Gingrich is a hypocrite. Gingrich served his first wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital with ovarian cancer.

His second wife of 19 years was informed over the telephone that Newt wanted a divorce. Newt then married a young staffer 23 years his junior.

I ask, are these family values, compassionate conservatism or just plain hypocrisy?

-Steve Stanley, Earlham.

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