DFP columnist on RR: Lack of concern for poor a dubious legacy at best

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http://www.freep.com/news/metro/des8_20040608.htm

DESIREE COOPER: Charmed, I'm sure, but never an admirer


Lack of concern for poor a dubious legacy at best

June 8, 2004


BY DESIREE COOPER
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST


It had been a torrid relationship, one that aroused passions in me that I'd never had before. I was young and inexperienced when he came into my life, barely able to vote. A man 49 years my senior, he'd charmed his way into my life.

I worried about our life together -- he had so little concern about children, about struggling families, about the poor. But when I tried to warn others, no one believed me. To them, he was sweet, almost grandfatherly. He'd cut to the quick, then smooth it over with a joke. His persona and his principles were so vastly out of sync, he nearly drove me out of my mind.

It was on March 30, 1981, that I heard the news: Someone had shot him. I'll admit that my first thought was, "It was only a matter of time. He's a man who will spoon you arsenic with a lump of sugar. Someone finally decided to put an end to it." But then I was hot with shame. I fell on my bed and cried.

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1. and here are the published LTTE from today's paper

including one from Betsy DeVos ("Michigan has too many high paying jobs")

http://www.freep.com/voices/letters/ereagan9_20040609.htm