Dear Editor, Despite The Times
’ policy to edit letters with factual errors, Don Luke’s letter
to the editor with gross inaccuracies about my columns was printed
on Oct. 16.
Dear Editor,
Despite The Times’ policy to edit letters with factual errors, Don Luke’s letter to the editor with gross inaccuracies about my columns was printed on Oct. 16.
I have checked the newspaper’s online archives as far back as they go (for a most thorough check, visit www.gilroydispatch.com, the web site for The Times’ sister paper, which prints all my columns) and am now correcting the following glaring errors:
Inaccuracy 1: “she railed against Wal-Mart because it would increase traffic …” This is simply not true.
Inaccuracy 2: “she said people working for Wal-Mart are bad because they are not unionized …” I have never said Wal-Mart employees are bad, for any reason.
But it gets worse. Luke then takes his gross errors and writes, “the hypocrisy in her arguments are obvious.” Ignoring Luke’s painful subject-verb agreement problem, it takes some nerve to take arguments I never made and use them to call me a hypocrite.
Given the words he tries to put in my columns, I have doubts about any and all of the so-called “facts” Luke presented in his letter. If you want to look at the facts about any situation and come to a different conclusion than me about the best course of action, more power to you, this is America.
But if you want anyone to give your opinions any credence, stick with the facts when forming those opinions.
Lisa Pampuch, Morgan Hill
