To The Editor:
Recently my opponent, Mr. Hastings, has been doing an awful lot of political grandstanding about the trade dispute with Mexico.
He isn’t proposing solutions and he isn’t telling the whole story.
Mexico is a country with serious problems and their government is all but powerless in the face of drug cartels.
As important as it may be that we uphold our treaty obligations, it is vastly more important that we secure our southern border.
The Mexican government can hardly secure their own country, can we really trust them to secure the trucks they are sending into ours?
NAFTA might have made sense more than a decade ago, but it is outdated and we should reevaluate it. The United States should never have to choose between protecting our economy and protecting our national security.
Mr. Hastings owes us all an explanation as to why he is so willing to give in to the ultimatum of a foreign country, rather than truly helping our farmers by making sure that banks that we bailed out are making loans to farmers, and diversifying our overseas market opportunities to secure long-term financial security, while helping to ensure the safety of our roads for our citizens.

Jay Clough