Jim Rogan

It's like the Armenian Genocide issue where the same positive and negative plethora of words, including mine, keep coming back boringly and endlessly long after there is any hope that any minds are likely to change. Andrew Carrasco once again brings us back to the James Rogan and Adam Schiff election campaigns with "Jim Rogan still on the minds of readers," March 3. Rogan is still on my mind because every day I feel blessed that Adam Schiff has replaced him in Congress.

Chuck Benedict Thanksgiving, as a patriotic holiday, should be a time for Americans to lift their sights above election bitterness. It should be a time for Washington, Florida, Glendale and all points south and east of Plymouth Rock to give thanks that this nation's history of arrogance has not destroyed its history of blessings. Thanksgiving Day will remain a harvest festival of gratitude. The holiday began in 1621, a year after the Pilgrims arrived in New England.

Tim Rosales' double-barreled diatribe ("Community deserves better than Will Rogers," Nov. 16) on James Rogan's political demise was a valuable lesson on the double standard. Rosales asserts that Rogers engages in "cheap and classless swipes" at Rogan and his campaign manager. He rails against his "distortions of the truth" and "self-serving intentions." Rosales, I wish I had saved half of the hundreds of mailers your campaign staff sent me over the past many months.

Claudia Peschiutta GLENDALE -- Wavering voters beware. Hundreds of volunteers are set to call or visit thousands of 27th Congressional District residents today as the campaigns for Rep. James Rogan (R-Glendale) and state Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Glendale) make their final appeals for support. Each campaign plans to have about 1,000 volunteers working until polls close at 8 p.m. today. "It's going to be crucial that we have a strong get-out-the-vote effort," said Tim Rosales, a Rogan campaign spokesman.

Given the howls of indignation from the reelection campaign of Rep. Jim Rogan that "Hollywood liberals" back his opponent, state Sen. Adam Schiff, eyebrows arched a few months ago when Rogan's team boasted of having won support from Hollywood conspiracy-meister Oliver Stone. On Saturday, Rogan was a guest by phone on Ray Briem's radio call-in show broadcast out of Glendale, and suddenly a Rogan/Stone alliance seemed to make more sense. Briem and his listeners are a proudly conservative lot, leaning so far right that charges the current president occasionally orders the murder of disruptive staff -- potential witnesses against him -- routinely pop up for discussion.

I would be remiss if I did not respond to Tricia Roth's diatribe against Jim Rogan published Oct. 16 in the News-Press ("Where was Rogan on civil rights?"). Roth is a member of a group that recently equated the Boy Scout Movement with the KKK. Need I say more? Rogan was right when he said nearly 13 million African-Americans have been aborted since Roe vs. Wade. Roth's support for RU-486 in consistent with encouraging more abortions. RU-486 is, to my knowledge, one of few drugs created especially to destroy human life.

I have to answer Kate Munter's attack on Lisa Miller and Lori Hartwell for their letters about Rogan's phony prescription drug plan. The truth is that they got it right on target. I was so pleased when I read their letters because they said what needed to be said, and did it precisely with facts and figures. Munter's rebuttal merely copies the tired, old scare words and the often-less-than-half-truths from Jim Rogan's campaign literature. The Rogan plan was and is a cynical contrivance to give the Republican's protection from well-merited criticism of their record.

Claudia Peschiutta There's a battle going on and most of the fighting is taking place at your house. Look through the large, colorful stack of mail sitting on your dining room table or turn on your television set and you'll see congressional contenders Jim Rogan and Adam Schiff taking hits from each other and outside groups jumping in to throw their own punches. And it seems every time a blow falls in the 27th District race, the wounded man cries foul.

Claudia Peschiutta PASADENA -- A handful of activists gathered in a park playground on Wednesday to talk about what they don't like about Rep. James Rogan (R-Glendale) and why they feel he shouldn't be reelected to Congress. Standing in a sandy pit with a backdrop of brightly colored slides, officials from the League of Conservation Voters and Handgun Control criticized the incumbent congressman's record on environmental issues and gun control. "Jim Rogan is an irresponsible congressman when it comes to environmental protection," said league President Deb Callahan.