46th District Election

As a voter in the 46th Assembly District and after being wooed so assiduously by my congressman, I now feel jilted since the June 4 special election.

In his many years as a congressman, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles) has built a major reputation in Washington. However voters rarely, if ever, hear from him in this “safe” district.

Thus we were a little shocked when he began to carpet-bomb this district with his literature urging the election of Barbara Friedman, his choice. Or perhaps they were intended as “surrender” leaflets. As the election got closer, the daily flood accelerated, sometimes several pieces per person per household. They carried the distinctive seal of the House of Representatives. Digging out of the mounds may have been roughly comparable to waiting for the waters at Mt. Ararat to subside.

Now, however, he must be letting those red-hot word processors cool or he has pointed them at someone else. At any rate, I appear to have slipped as an object of his attention. I feel like a nerd in high school who is flattered by the attention of a big man on campus, only to find that all he wanted were the answers to the math homework.

FLOYD A. OLIVER, Los Angeles