Another response to the Statesmanship piece

To the editor:

We take the Express to keep up to date on the old hometown area. I grew up in Stanton and my wife grew up in the Wales/Red Oak area.

I enjoy your editorial page, far better than what we get from the Argus Leader here in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Even the editor’s viewpoints can be interesting. It amazes me how Marshall keeps finiding interesting things from the past to write about. I did learn a lot of new things from Miner’s Jan. 3 Statesmanship piece.

I would agree the 95 percent of our elected Washington Officials don’t know the meaning of Statesmanship, but Miner straighten me out on that.

She could only find examples of no Statesmanship in the Republican Party and the Tea Party.

Miner also used examples of the Republicans willing to let the country slide off a cliff by cutting off pay checks, unemployment checks and social security checks. Since that didn’t happen, could that be a hint of Statesmanship?

Also, there are a lot of underground pipe lines efficiently and safely carrying useful products all across our United States.

Now I know that this (bad?) Canadian Corporation wants to build a pipeline (carrying Canadian crude oil to US jobs) with no proven long term benefits with major environmental risks; I thought we were trying to find more North American oil and use less oil from countries that don’t like us.

Surely with Statesmanship we could have found a common ground and not just trash help from our Northern neighbors.

When I left Stanton in ‘62, I went to work for the Geigy Corporation starting in Illinois, then Missouri, New York and ending up back in Iowa.

Over 35 years I worked with a lot of good fellow employees like Larry, Dave, Arnie, Sheri, Trish, Glen, John, Palma, Leo, Jill, Ellen and many more; all good citizens paying their taxes, serving on elected boards and doing beneficial volunteer work where they lived. Now I learn we are not people!

C Dennis Requist