On February 27 I received an email from the Republican California US Senate candidate, Steve Garvey. Titled "We Can Win in California Again," it asked for a contribution to help Garvey defeat "radical Adam Schiff." The text of the email spent most of its verbiage castigating supposedly terrible conditions in America today. Here was my response to his email.
The dystopian picture you paint is so wrong it's comical. You were my favorite baseball player back in the 1970s, but not so good a candidate for the US Senate. The stock market is at an all-time high. Unemployment is at a 60-year low. Growth is at a 60-year high. More jobs have been created in the three years of Biden's presidency than in the eight years ofd any two-term president. Almost every economist predicted a recession in order to get inflation under control, and it hasn't happened. And now inflation is back under 3%.
The Democrats take climate change seriously while the Republicans deny it. Biden got infrastructure done (bipartisanly), which the previous Republican administration utterly failed to do. The Democrats want to take common sense measures like keeping military assault rifles off the streets while Republicans want to make sure every would-be mass murderer has one. Republicans are denying women and gay people equal rights. The Democrats want to give essential aid to the heroic Ukrainian military resisting tyrannical Russian aggression, while the Republicans are holding it up. Republicans say they are for securing the border, but when a bipartisan committee of senators forged a compromise to do that, the Republicans in the House cravenly refused to put it up for a vote because the utterly corrupt former Republican president didn't want the issue to be solved while Biden was president.
Republicans are so morally bankrupt they are about to nominate for president a man who has been convicted of bank fraud, insurance fraud, consumer fraud, tax fraud, embezzlement from a charity, and even rape, along with defamation of the woman he raped. His companies have been convicted of massive tax fraud, for which the CFO went to prison, and his former chief attorney was convicted of making illegal hush money payments to a porn star and went to prison. The attorney did this on Trump's orders and was reimbursed for the illegal payment by a check written byTrump himself. And I understand that you, Steve, voted for this career criminal twice. Anyone who has no more political courage or integrity than to do that is unworthy to represent me in the US Senate. I will remember fondly your exploits for my beloved Dodgers, but can only hope that you are trounced by an immense margin in your campaign for Senator.
Sincerely,
Steve Natoli
