Letter of the WeeQ

Did I miss something? How can you run a lead editorial on the latest lobbying/money/corruption scandal in Congress and then print no letters to the editor in response ("At Least Try To Reform Congressional Ethics," Jan. 23)? Am I to believe that my letter to the editor on this subject was the only one you received on the ethics mess in Congress?

If true, that's another story waiting to be told. As you are not bound by past editorial board opinions, perhaps the current editorial board could do a re-examination of the whole campaign-spending mess in Congress and at the state level. This should include a rejection of the Register's past view that money in politics cannot be regulated.

Examine what a number of other leading newspapers and commentators have been saying about the latest scandal in Congress. In short, the consensus is that until Congress does something about public campaign financing to remove the need to raise large amounts of campaign funds, any other so-called "reform" will do little to remove the link between private money and public policy.

If the Register does not accept the fundamentally corrupting nature of money in politics, then you should at least tell readers why and explain how "ethics reform" will accomplish anything new.

—Jon Euchner, Indianola.

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