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Get the facts on the unfolding crisis.

An Open Letter from Vote Smart:

We are the champions. I know it is so!

It is not our elected leaders but our fellow American citizens who are
finding the road to a bright and promising future.

No matter where you live, look at who is out on the line: nurses, doctors,
care givers of every sort, firefighters, policemen, grocery clerks, the
businesses stretching and then stretching again, or just Michael my mailman
or the countless others sustaining your community and neighborhood.

They never ask about your politics; they know who you are.

Those are the patriots; they aren’t conservative or liberal they are just
Americans helping Americans.

Like your Vote Smart staff, who just won’t quit, patching together their
defense of facts from their homes from California to New York, they all
know:
1. We’re better united than divided.
2. We are a nation of fairness where no matter how sick you are, you
count.
3. Our democracy is as great as we make it.

When the virus is vanquished, they will all want what everyone wants, an
equality of rights in tandem with an equality of responsibility.

Such sentiments, such traditions are sustained by education of the young or
they are not sustained at all. The young simply do not know what you know.

They do not know a time when our elected leaders could be civil, could
compromise, could collectively lead. They have been raised in a world of
endless dispute, of opinionated partisan news and an enormous and tragic
reduction in their civic and science education.

To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson: I tremble for my country when I reflect
that knowledge, facts, are all that we have with which to self-govern
successfully.

When I think of these modern-day champions, these courageous defenders of
you and me, I think, the light is still there, it is bright and beacons
through the darkest of clouds. As a Vote Smarter, you are amongst those on
that first burst of light.

Richard Kimball

VoteSmart.org President



THIS LETTER WAS STIMULATED BY THE THOUGHTS, WORK AND INTERVIEWS DONE BY
RICHARD GILMAN, FORMER PUBLISHER OF THE BOSTON GLOBE.

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questionable rhetoric and misrepresentation that characterizes present-day
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