Letter to the Editor: John Yewell
Letter to the Editor: John Yewell
The AJT welcomes your letters. If you would like your letter to be published, please write 200 words or less, and send it to editor@atljewishtimes.com. By John Yewell May 5, 2021, 4:46 pm Edit
I was a reporter and covered Norm Coleman when he was mayor of St.
Paul, Minn., in the 1990s. He took office as a Democrat; he left as a Republican. Coleman seems to suggest that what politicians say before they run for office conveys some kind of deeper truth about them. Hence this quote from his letter: “I urge [former Israel Consul General Alon] Liel to listen to Warnock’s own words, from before he decided to run for public office. Warnock’s statements put him at the far left of the Democratic Party…” By that standard, Coleman’s past puts him in the same place. Coleman was well known in Minnesota as the Hofstra [University] grad who was a campus radical in the 1960s. Ther