Letter to the editor
As Republicans who voted in the Capitol Wednesday, Jan. 6, to challenge the election results scramble to defend their actions, residents of the Inland Empire should know that members of this perfidious group are right here among us. They deserve our reproach. Because, with casting that vote, they revealed their willingness to betray their oath of office and the reality that they only pretend to represent our interests.By objecting to the Electoral College vote of any state other than their own, these seditionists endangered the integrity of all California voters. Their objections invite reciprocal treatment. What could we now say to a representative of Wyoming who objected to our Electoral College vote? This is a precedent-setting betrayal of federalism and of the traditional America