Re: March 3 guest commentary.
Thank you to state Sen. Rhonda Fields for eloquently expressing what so many of us voters feel about being disrespected by our elected officials. It looks more and more like they feel free to pass harmful legislation like repealing the Affordable Care Act, gutting environmental protection rules, and making gun ownership available to one and all, even those with mental problems, and then run and hide in their marbled halls, safe from the voices of dissent from the very constituents that they purportedly represent. This is not the way of a way of a representative democracy. It is the way of tyranny.
Judy Ekstrom, Littleton
Rhonda Fields’ guest commentary about Republicans’ cowardly failure to face their constituents is exactly what she and Colorado Democrats did in 2013 with the legislature passing several gun measures.
To paraphrase Fields: We cease to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people when the Democratic majority in Colorado will not listen to or respect the voices of those of us who will have to bear in our day-to-day lives the consequences of their political agenda.
Lyle Weilnau, Littleton
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