Nachbar interview feedback in the City Paper
Earlier we mentioned the Yates County Dems chairperson writing in to the City Paper in response to their Nachbar interview. A couple other interesting letters have come in since, asking Nachbar to bow out:
 David Nachbar sounds like Mitt Romney to me: Iraq, a “military success”? Universal, privately-operated health care? Education as the training of a workforce?
City was good enough to give Nachbar a whole page. Now, Mr. Nachbar, be good enough to bow out and work for Mr. Massa.
Here’s another asking why Nachbar is running in the first place:
Thank you for your excellent interview with Congressional candidate David Nachbar. I was disappointed that Mr. Nachbar chose to deride his primary and likely general election-opponents - Democrat Eric Massa and Republican Randy Kuhl, respectively - as lifelong “government employees.” It is an obvious slight to the brave members of the service who protect our country to say that they are unfit for office because they are “government employees.”
But I would go further: as fashionable as it is to criticize politicians these days, public servants almost certainly benefit from the wisdom of experience that comes from governing and campaigning. Would anyone say “unlike a doctor, I’m not an employee of the health-care industry, so I can give you the best medical opinion”? That’s essentially what David Nachbar is saying when he claims that his lack of experience with public service is an asset.
Finally, if Mr. Nachbar has such contempt for “government employees,” why is he campaigning to become one?
Good question.
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We do have the power. I was just thinking about Howard Dean’s words and about this blog. When I relate those things to this post about reaction to the City story about David Nachbar, one thing becomes clear. We have the power of the media.
Sure the City story was good, but I don’t think it went far enough to address issues surrounding Nachbar’s run for Congress. The truly interesting information comes in the form of letters to the editor and Rochester Turning.