To the editor - The dust is settling from the 2014 election and it was a pretty good year for Republicans. In his recent column ("Republicans must remember, voters don't really like them either"), Doyle McManus pointed out this was an anti-incumbent wave. Republicans won, but it was most probably not an endorsement so much as a show of discontent. Some good things did happen. We have a new congressman who is not a tea party candidate, and a modest extension of background checks for those buying guns.
As our eyes turn to 2016 and the next visit of the corporate circus, Republicans who wish to remain in office need to start governing. They should listen to the voters and immediately decriminalize pot and increase the national minimum wage. The question is, can they do anything other than make the rich wealthier and destroy our climate faster?
