Don Swatman: Kashkari editorial was a hit piece

Re “Kashkari ad shows he’s flailing in effort to unseat Brown” (Our View, Oct. 16): It is amazing that supposedly educated editorial writers at the Sacramento Bee could have written such a disgusting opinion piece about gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari, which The Modesto Bee reprinted despite having never met the man.

This is a biased hit piece meant to crucify a talented and capable alternative to Jerry Brown. If he was not a threat, there would be no reason to kick a man who started from nearly zero in campaign funding, then dug into his personal resources to defeat his primary opponents and step into the ring against an opponent funded with a glut of labor money. It is David vs. Goliath.

Kashkari has excellent credentials – appointed an assistant secretary of the treasury at 35 with the task of helping save the economy from the crash of 2008. He negotiated a $475 billion bank program that saw the money returned with $13 billion in interest.

The editorial belittled an American who has so much to offer.

Do we want to continue losing jobs? Don’t we want to keep industries here and bring in more? Unemployment equals more welfare, more crime and fewer people paying taxes. Why not vote to really bring California back!

This story was originally published October 28, 2014 at 6:56 PM with the headline "Don Swatman: Kashkari editorial was a hit piece."