Letters to the Editor
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Another chance...
...for a Republican legislator (or any legislator, for that matter) to own their words, accept the condemnation they justly generate and apologize for her mistake...another wasted chance, that is. Anybody else out there sick and tired of public figures (Republican or Democrat) who don't have the common decency to admit when they're wrong and make amends for damage their ill-considered statements caused?
Where I come from the willingness to admit when you screw up, accept the consequences of the mistake and take steps to rectify the wrong you've done is the very foundation, the bedrock, of integrity. Those who can't or won't do so are considered spineless, cowardly connivers, more concerned with self-aggrandizement than with moral fortitude.
Wait a sec...I've just defined the word "politician". My mistake; it looks like Representative Schmidt is behaving correctly after all....