Letter: Speaker McCarthy is ‘Joe Hardy’

Posted 1/12/23

To the editor: There has been much speculation on what concessions were made by Rep. Kevin McCarthy to the holdouts preventing his becoming house speaker. Based on the strong moral fortitude and …

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Letter: Speaker McCarthy is ‘Joe Hardy’

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To the editor:
There has been much speculation on what concessions were made by Rep. Kevin McCarthy to the holdouts preventing his becoming house speaker.
Based on the strong moral fortitude and integrity he showed after the January 6 insurrection, rumors are rampant that his parents, wife and children will be toiling as domestics for those same twenty nay sayers for the next two years.
Joe Hardy lives!
Gerry Griffin
Rumford

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