Reporter John Fritze's article on the U.S. Senate race in Maryland infers that a credible Baltimore candidate has to be either a career politician or a person who has the capability of raising millions of dollars in campaign contributions ("Senate campaigns begin to carve up Baltimore," June 21).
This presumption demonstrates faulty reasoning on the part of Mr. Fritze and also accounts for your readers' distrust of The Sun.
What The Sun refuses to acknowledge is the fact that a politician should be an individual who possesses an ethical and moral understanding of Judaic-Christian values, who tells the truth all the time, and who is trustworthy. The candidate's ideas should be worthy of being taken seriously by the citizens of this state and of the country.
Currently we have to deal with career politicians who distort the truth, who take legal bribes in the form of campaign contributions, and who put their own selfish goals of obtaining power, fame and wealth above the needs of their constituents.
Until we get politicians whose only goal is to be good public servants we will continue to experience a chaotic, divisive, racial and religious polarization in our country.
The Sun might not be interested, but I am interested in letting your readers know that I will be a Democratic candidate for United State Senate in the 2016 Democratic primary. I plan to file my candidacy in July.
I am the only candidate who refuses to take campaign contributions (because they are disguised bribes), who will pursue the truth no matter where it may lead, who will serve one term only. I will also serve without pay and turn away paid, political lobbyists because citizens should be their own lobbyists.
Ralph Jaffe, Baltimore
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