Dear George:

With one malignant George in power for two more years, we in Virginia have a mandate to insure that the Senate will be rid of another George: Allen.

Being represented by a man who votes with the president 96% of the time; who has a long history of racial prejudice; and who regards being "reminded" of his Jewish heritage by reacting to the "news" as tantamount to casting aspersions on his heretofore undisclosed religion, demeans us all. Damages us, too, in a myriad of ways.

Voting for Jim Webb is a must; a vital sign that Virginians are sick of the cowboy from L.A. who is an intellectual and moral embarrassment. The "values" he so ardently speaks of reek with hypocrisy, mirroring the equally meaningless, mean-spirited drivel falling from the president's lying lips.

Two Georges--two men who must go. We have an opportunity to get at least one of them out of the nation's capitol, and reduce the human, social and political pollution they have created.

Barbara Rich (October 1, 2006)