LTE: On a letter from last month - Dec '25

The Friday, Nov. 7 issue of The Owen News carried a "Letter to the Editor" from a Mr. Ellington, a Greene County politician running for the State Senate in District 39. It was a thinly disguised "campaign speech" that amazingly turned out to be quite prescient. Mr. Ellington rambled about the need to increase the 7-2 majority the GOP already has in the House of Representatives from Indiana. He then went on to rail against the opposition to re-districting in Indiana by a "handful" of Republican members of the Indiana Statehouse.

He predicted that these Republicans who balked at redrawing districts would incur the "sizable wrath of the MAGA BASE." While not knowing if he had his letter printed in other publications, there is no way of telling or sure whether or not his prediction inspired the seven or eight SWAT phone calls later made, which led to armed officers of the law being called to the houses of these politicians who did not follow the governor's and the White House's wishes.

Were the unbalanced people who made these illegal and certainly family-frightening calls about people being harmed in the households of these non-compliant GOP politicians inspired by the latter words of Mr. Ellington? Because he then goes on to say we are in an "arms race" with a "Cabal of National Democrats" and refers to a "gerrymandering war." No way of proving.

I live in beautiful Owen County. I have been in Greene County more times than I can count - it also is a lovely part of Indiana. Mr. Ellington's vitriol and incendiary words are not needed in Greene nor in any other county which he wants to serve as a representing politician.

— Ed Staubach