Editorial shows Herald's true color

Your Oct. 8 editorial, "Our Challenge: Don't Wait for a Law" showed its true red colors with your second-to-last sentence: "For Republicans who claim to be powerless in a state controlled by Democrats, this is your chance to reclaim power."

You quoted three Republicans and no Democrats. Your words show that you also believe in relying on the integrity of candidates rather than law. Surely, you have seen that politicians who are elected in a money-election system at any level of government are not able to regulate themselves and easily fall under the control of the corporations and the wealthy. The reigns of Ryan and Blagojevich and the end results proved this beyond a doubt.

The voters clearly need your editorial board to use more common sense before writing this kind of biased editorial. It assumes that there are no Democrats worthy of talking to or being elected who want meaningful campaign finance reform or that any legislature controlled by Democrats is doomed to failure. You should be supporting firm, substantive reform legislation and any candidate who supports that rather than sending a message to voters that only one political party will save them.

The people have to be motivated by true, fair journalists to fix broken systems, not continue the blame game and NIMBY thinking that allows those in power to stay in power and continue to allow corporate communism to harm the people. Please examine the logic and facts instead of the party when you are covering elections. Maybe if you would not have been such a biased supporter of one party for so many years, reform legislation could already be the law.

Paul E. Sjordal

Naperville