Attack in Disguise
Anthony Perry’s column (Sept. 29) on Tricia Hunter’s campaign in the 76th Assembly District was a last-minute anti-Hunter hit piece and a disguised attack on the pro-choice position in the abortion debate.
Employing the strategy of guilt by association, Perry suggests that Hunter’s receipt of a contribution (since returned) from a Los Angeles-area physician specializing in abortion (and facing investigation into complaints of shoddy care) makes her “supportive of the lucrative abortion industry and its practitioners.”
What nonsense! I have no doubt that Hunter’s anti-choice opponent Dick Lyles has received contributions from sympathizers of those who have conspired to bomb abortion clinics--but that does not make him “supportive of those who favor bombing clinics as a way of stopping abortions.”
Every candidate for every office receives contributions from people they don’t know, some of whom may be unsavory. To devote most of a front-page column to one such contribution to one candidate four days before the election strikes me as inappropriately partisan, grossly unfair, and unworthy of The Times.
GORDON CLANTON
Del Mar
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