Dear Sen. Curtis, I believe you are a good man.
I viewed your video with regards to President Trump’s March 4 speech to Congress. Certainly, nobody wants cartel members in our country, high grocery prices, or a war to continue. The problem is this:
Our current president’s actions penalize all immigrants in general, and promote racial prejudices, his tariff and tax choices produce further inflation and wealth inequality, and he contributes to war being more likely, by not standing up to international aggressors, even choosing to belittle the leader of an invaded nation like a schoolyard bully.
Please, I urge you to continue to be your own man. Your grandchildren will be grown one day, and they will fully understand what you did during this time, when our current president leads not only with self-centeredness, but an overwhelming hardness in his heart for his fellow man.
I do not believe that you believe that 47′s choices are motivated by kindness in his heart. He demands that others treat him as a king, and he delights in making others feel small and insignificant. He seeks fame, flattery, and all the personal credit, while refusing to accept any responsibility for mistakes or shortcomings.
You owe this man nothing besides the general goodwill that you would show to any other person. Constitutionally, Congress does not exist to defer to the president, but rather the inverse. The office of the presidency exists to serve the will of Congress.
I do not expect to agree with all of your political choices, and that’s OK. But in a Washington D.C. full of Donald Trumps, I pray that you will continue to have the courage to be a John Curtis, who will not make excuses for the mistakes and mean-spiritedness of our current president.
I hope you will continue to serve with wise reflection and kindness in your heart, with the resolve to straightforwardly correct the president when he is wrong, whether he is wrong in his facts, or a lack of kindness in his heart.
Bjorn Jones, former United Utah Party Candidate for Utah House Seat 32, Sandy
