Answer, please

Steve Pearce, as head of New Mexico Republicans, just tell me one thing:

What has the Republican Party ever done to help average Americans? Just one thing. Right now, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is blocking the relief act by not even putting it on the calendar. You see, the abject failure of the GOP to help our people has a direct connection with electoral fraud.

No, not “voter fraud” — the Trump task force was a failure, the George W. Bush assignment of U.S. attorneys to discover and prosecute voter fraud was a failure, and the Brennan Center has for years researched claims of voter fraud and determined there is none. That is, casting of votes by unqualified voters. What I am talking about is voter suppression. You see, the GOP does nothing for anyone but the 1 percent, the 5 percent. And you cannot win an election with 1 percent. So the GOP knows it must fool the average Americans it hurts with party policies into voting for Republicans. But the other half of GOP electoral fraud is keeping the Democrats it can’t fool from voting. These acts are illegal, unethical or both.

So, Mr. Pearce, do what no one else has been able to do, in my 20 years of publishing this question: What has the national GOP done for average Americans? Name just one thing. Ike’s highway system does not count; it badly damaged communities all over this country by tearing them in half.

Michael M. Kiley, Ph.D., MPH Albuquerque