Illinois man defends Missouri in Wisconsin

To the editor:

A few months ago I was in Wisconsin. While sitting in a motel lobby, I started a conversation with some folks. One asked me where I was from. I answered Cairo, Ill., just across the river from Missouri. One said, "That's the state that elected a dead man to the U.S. Senate, isn't it?" I said yes, and the governor selected the dead man's wife to take his place, and she was about as capable of being a senator as I would of being president."

A lady some way away from us said, "Well, Mister, there isn't any reason you couldn't be president, especially after the one we've had the past eight years."

I don't know if the Democrats in Missouri stole the election. I do know that the biggest thieves are in Chicago, where 16,000 votes in a Republican area were thrown out, and then one of the Daleys tried the same thing in Florida. I'm grateful truth and right won out after all the recounts and all the lies and excuses from the Democrats.

I don't see how any Democrat who is serving in Congress expects to be re-elected after showing he doesn't know right from wrong. Surely we can't be stupid enough to vote for that kind of representation again.

I'm close to 100 years old. I never cared about such as this before, but I love Missouri, and it kind of hurt to have those folks in Wisconsin recognize Missouri in this demeaning way.

ROBERT HOGAN

Cairo, Ill.