Letters on replacing Roberts, freeing elephants
Don’t be insane; replace Roberts
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Almost no one is satisfied with the performance of Congress, yet we keep electing the same bunch time after time hoping for a different result. Are we insane?
I had hopes that Milton Wolf might win in the GOP primary against Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. Wolf doesn’t have a record to run on, I know. But after 40 years in Washington, D.C., Roberts doesn’t have one either. He mostly just votes how his party bosses tell him.
Now that the Democrat has taken himself out of the race, it appears it will be between Roberts and either the independent or the Libertarian candidate, neither of whom I can name. I just hope the vote doesn’t get split between them and that one or the other can garner enough support to defeat the Virginian Roberts.
Putting on a sunflower lapel pin and saying “I have Kansas values” doesn’t really make you a Kansan. To believe otherwise is insane.
JERRY W. DAVIDSON
Valley Center
Set them free
Rarely do I agree with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Its positions are often too narrow. However, I do agree with the PETA Foundation’s letter “Retire elephants” (Sept. 6 Letters to the Editor), which urged that the Sedgwick County Zoo elephants be sent to an American reserve where elephants roam about.
Our elephants, Stephanie and Cinda, have been in that very small compound for 42 years.
I worked at the zoo for 27 years and know the heartfelt and genuine commitment all zookeepers have for the animals in their care.
Not long ago, I saw a film of two old female elephants in such a reserve. They were out for a stroll with their trunks entwined in friendship.
It’s easy to imagine our girls doing the same, finally able to walk more than a few yards and enjoying the twilight of their lives.
The Sedgwick County Zoo is exemplary in many ways and can easily redirect the funds that have been raised to another good cause.
CONNE DILLON
Wichita
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This story was originally published September 9, 2014 at 7:07 PM with the headline "Letters on replacing Roberts, freeing elephants."