Letter to the editor: Gulleson doesn’t seem to get what’s troubling this state

Pam Gulleson’s campaign has been interesting to watch.

In the midst of all the attention given to Rick Berg and Heidi Heitkamp, it’s been interesting to watch the U.S. House race unfold. Kevin Cramer was the clear front runner to begin with, and now looks even more likely to win the seat thanks to many missteps by Gulleson. The summer campaign season has not been kind to the Rutland rancher.

After Cramer won his primary by a wide margin, Gulleson ended up in the headlines for a different reason. Her desperate fundraising plea requesting campaign funds to fix her broken car ended up in the headlines of local newspapers and even the national political publication Politico. Expecting voters to fix her car up instead of taking charge herself, she came across as out of touch. We want our politicians to serve the public, not the other way around. Does Gulleson think being elected to Congress means free car repairs?

Later in the summer, Gulleson looked even more out of touch as she held “birthday parties” for Medicare and Social Security on the anniversaries of each being signed into law. Instead of talking about real solutions to the massive problems in both of these programs, she was content to simply celebrate with cake and send out an email declaring everything is fine with Social Security.

Now Gulleson’s first TV ad closes out what has been a rough summer for her campaign. She rides around on a horse in the ad, not once telling us what she will do about the massive problems our country faces. This election year is about real issues, not platitudes, and Gulleson doesn’t seem to get it.

Matthew Kopp

Jamestown

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