Eleven reasons to vote Republican: If you oppose stem cell research that could find cures for Alzheimer’s, blindness, diabetes, spinal injuries, muscular dystrophy and many other diseases – vote Republican. If you oppose campaign finance reform – vote Republican. If you support a poverty level minimum wage – vote Republican. If you oppose effective mandatory background checks to prevent convicted felons from buying guns at gun shows – vote Republican. If you want three more right wing Supreme Court Justices – vote Republican. If you oppose a woman’s right to choose an abortion to save her life or prevent serious permanent damage to her health – vote Republican. If you support your tax dollars subsidizing religions you don’t believe in – vote Republican. If you oppose separation of church and state – vote Republican. If you don’t want the heirs of multibillionaires to pay any taxes on the trillion plus dollars they will inherit – vote Republican. If you support schemes to privatize Social Security and Medicare that will cause them to “wither and die on the vine” as Newt Gingrich gleefully predicted they would – vote Republican. If you hate Bill Clinton so much that you can ignore all of the above – vote Republican and suffer the consequences. Alan L. Light

Resident

Iowa City