Be active and informed

EDITOR:

I enjoyed Richard Girod's letter last week and agree we all need to be active in government. I wrote the letter entitled "feeling betrayed" a week ago.

I mailed it to all of our state and federal representatives and also the president as soon as I wrote it. I also wrote "corruption the real issue" which appeared on January 20, 2009. I have been active in government since I was first able to vote at 18 years old and have never missed an election including a primary.

In 1957 a high school friend of ours was killed when he was shot by some druggies while working in a drive-through dairy.

We got a busload of kids together and went to Sacramento to ask Gov. Brown Sr. to enforce the drug laws. It was called the crusade against narcotics. He sent us home with a reprimand and told us to mind our own business.

While we were there, we interviewed some representatives and most of them said they would vote however the governor voted. We were not impressed. When we were old enough to vote, Brown was voted out of office. In 1962 I worked at a well-known restaurant on Interstate 5.

Because I had had three years of Spanish in high school, I was elected to tell the dishwashers when we needed more clean dishes. I wondered how they were able to get jobs when they could not speak English.

I have been to planning meetings, commissioner meetings, GID meetings, public utility meetings and was at the town hall meeting last year in Smith Valley to protest changing the Wilderness Act.

If my letters seem somewhat pessimistic there is good reason for it. It seems as if our government takes us one step forward and two steps backwards.

I will still continue to be active and e-mail and write my representatives regularly. That is really all we can and should do.

I almost sent my last letter to the editor to Sue Louden to ask her if she knows what she is in for, but of course she does. I wonder who the people were that paid $2,500 to have breakfast with Harry Reid last week?

Do you think their agendas will get passed?

I wish I could end this letter on a more positive note but am still very skeptical as to where our country is headed.

Time will tell.

LaVerne Jory

Minden