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Care needed at polling place

To the Journal editor:

(I) received a packet from Catholic Vote asking for support, money and vote. I would like to make it very clear from the beginning, I was born and baptized Catholic, am 82 years old and try hard to adhere to my faith.

I do not believe in abortion and I am a Democrat. I believe I am one better than a Republican. Republicans try to change your vote by playing on your religion. But they fail to pay attention to the rest of the scriptures.

I do not claim to be a Bible expert but in all my years it has taught us to take care of the poor, widows and children, which means that after the births, they deserve good health, education and a good upbringing.

The Republicans have been promising “health care” for years but do not have a plan yet. Without a health care plan, if you are poor or sickly, tough luck. You will spend the rest of your life, which may be short, or suffer with things that could be corrected but you can’t afford it. The Republicans are still trying to tear down the Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court. Also, they would like to sponsor private schools, leaving public schools with less funding so poor children will not only receive no health care but poor education.

If they truly want to no abortion, let them put it on the ballot, as I would like to see, across the country, filling out petitions in front of every church. It will take you little time to get the amount of names to make it a Constitutional amendment drive.

As far as voting for Donald Trump, he is the most corrupt, immoral and law-breaking president we have ever had in this country. And much kudos go to Sen. Mitt Romney who is the only man with enough guts to stand up to the truth.

A vote for any Republican senator, other than Romney, is a vote for an authoritarian government. Trump believes in running the press and the Attorney General to protect him instead of Americans. His favorite people, who he brags about, are Putin, the Chinese and the North Korean heads. This is not what we need for democracy. In your vote, just remember no Republican has said Trump was wrong. Vote carefully!

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