Volstead Lounge
McCracken and Maxey Trying to Trump Voters
RECEIVED Thu., March 30, 2006
Dear Editor,
I understand McCracken and Maxey's plan to inject, through Proposition 6, a measure of fairness ["A Question of Fairness,” News, March 24] into the city of Austin's current insurance coverage of its employees. The unwitting patient to be injected is no less than the voting public who made its voice heard in Proposition 2, which is affecting the coverage issue. These are the voters, patronized and chided at once, by McCracken, Maxey, and Sheffield as, “more tolerant,” “light-years ahead,” and “ridiculous,” respectively.
Whether Proposition 2 voters' decisions were based on cost impact, moral grounds, or fairness, as tossed in the mix by these elected officials, it would seem cost impact and/or moral grounds held sway over fairness. Would it be fair to say Proposition 2 voters sought to be unfair? McCracken, Maxey, and others are free to launch and champion their cause to make fair the unfair. It is their prerogative, because, as says Maxey of the opposition, holds true of McCracken and company also: “Somebody's gonna do something.” Should Proposition 2 be rendered powerless by voters, so be it. Better a ballot in the box than the politician's injection of fairness.
I understand McCracken and Maxey's plan to inject, through Proposition 6, a measure of fairness ["A Question of Fairness,” News, March 24] into the city of Austin's current insurance coverage of its employees. The unwitting patient to be injected is no less than the voting public who made its voice heard in Proposition 2, which is affecting the coverage issue. These are the voters, patronized and chided at once, by McCracken, Maxey, and Sheffield as, “more tolerant,” “light-years ahead,” and “ridiculous,” respectively.
Whether Proposition 2 voters' decisions were based on cost impact, moral grounds, or fairness, as tossed in the mix by these elected officials, it would seem cost impact and/or moral grounds held sway over fairness. Would it be fair to say Proposition 2 voters sought to be unfair? McCracken, Maxey, and others are free to launch and champion their cause to make fair the unfair. It is their prerogative, because, as says Maxey of the opposition, holds true of McCracken and company also: “Somebody's gonna do something.” Should Proposition 2 be rendered powerless by voters, so be it. Better a ballot in the box than the politician's injection of fairness.
Gilbert Torres
