Here’s an interesting letter to the editor in today’s N&R on the Dole-Hagan Senate race, in its entirety:

Strap in! The GOP slime machine is cranked up and ready to go. Prepare for Elizabeth Dole, George Bush, John McCain and others to tell us how Sen. Kay Hagan will take away our guns, have tea with terrorists, blast open our southern border and let gay people marry!

In a nutshell, it is the same stuff that put Bush in office. Fear! Fear! Fear! That’s all they have to peddle after the past eight years.

“Giddy” Dole has been nothing short of a lap dog for George Bush, showing up in North Carolina just months before the election, after being totally absent for over five-and-a-half years! Her ads are slick, but she can’t pull the wool over this state twice. She is a pitiful excuse for a senator.
Kay Hagan, my family stands with you!

John Graham
Greensboro

Meanwhile (via Locker Room), Hagan argues for stronger veterans’ benefits:

Throughout the next few months, I’ll be holding veterans town halls across the state. In a recent town hall in Greensboro, we attracted a diverse crowd of veterans and discussed the challenges they have faced trying to navigate a system that should work seamlessly and reward their service to our country. There were some success stories, and those should not be forgotten, but the number of those who still needed help far outnumbered those who had been receiving it.

We must make our veterans and their families a priority, not an afterthought.

Hagan mentions her role in increasing pensions for N.C. National Guard members as a budget writer in state Senate. But read the editorial and please tell me if it’s not lacking in details? Voters are hungry for details.