Didn’t besmirch them

Judy Sipes Smith, in her Jan. 26 letter, complains a little too much about John Brummett’s earlier column taking Gov. Sarah Sanders to task for governing by “tactical cultural fear rather than practical reality,” and that he has demeaned the integrity of the voting majority of Arkansans. She also comments that he has besmirched their conservative Christian values and throws darts at the governor.

We had a choice in the last election between the current governor, whose experience in government is best known for the 2½ years she spent defending and covering for the lies told by the most mendacious president ever to hold the office. This is hardly an example of Christian conservatism; more like hypocrisy in action.

The other choice of candidate, Chris Jones, has a Ph.D. in urban planning, and experience with the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub. The son of two preachers, his conservative Christian roots are obvious. Arkansas instead elected Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whose father, a former governor, is a preacher, and who has no previous experience in governing. You’d think she’d know better that standing up in public and spewing untruth is a betrayal of the Christian values she was taught at her father’s knee. John Brummett didn’t besmirch Arkansans’ Christian values; they did that all on their own in the last election.

Brummett’s comment about Sanders governing by cultural fear is deadon. On her first day, she issued an executive order banning the teaching of critical race theory, a total waste of time since it’s not taught here. She also declared war on “left-wing indoctrination” in our schools, something that is also not happening, at least as far as I know here in Siloam. I guess right-wing indoctrination is OK. So far in her young term, she’s taken up the culture wars, but has not done anything substantial to improve the lot of Arkansans.

THOMAS BECKETT Siloam Springs