Dear Editor:
I appreciated Krayton Kerns’ comments in his column last week regarding profanity. In his column, Krayton described both personal and national instances where profanity was used. This subject has been on my mind as well, having read of recent incidents of profane language by a current state legislator as well as a statewide candidate for public office. To our current public servants as well as to all candidates for public office I say, “You can do better!” If a point cannot be made without the use of profanity, a better and more extensive vocabulary is needed. When a public servant speaks they are speaking for the people they represent as well as themselves. It is my opinion that we have a duty to represent our constituents with integrity and dignity.
Let’s demand more from our representatives and from ourselves. My mother taught me to think before I speak, and while I am not immune from saying something that I wish I had not, it is not too difficult to find words with meaning that are not profane. Try it — use a dictionary, thesaurus, or Google if you need inspiration. Let us all aspire to bring civility back to civil discourse.
Sue Vinton
Representative – House District 56
