Reader's view: Northland better off with Cravaack

Smaller government and fewer regulations encourage job growth while bigger government and more regulations inhibit private-sector economic growth. That’s what was behind the closing of the Georgia-Pacific plant (Local View: “Why did Duluth’s Georgia-Pacific plant really close?” Oct 21).

Congressional candidate Rick Nolan said at a forum in Duluth this month: “The environmental industry created more jobs than any other sector.” Really? Nolan’s EPA friends may have created more government jobs in the 1970s when he last served, but for those hopeful of landing new high-paying precious-metals mining jobs — including iron miners, loggers and others — the EPA is anything but a friend.

Nolan said, “The middle class is getting crushed,” but he apparently forgot his fellow EPA-supporting Democrats had control of the House from 2007 to 2010, the Senate since 2007, and the presidency since 2009.

Rather than talk about truthful issues facing the 8th District, Nolan is running campaign ads about where U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack’s wife’s new job is, attacking her need to be with their children. He fails to value the personal sacrifice she’s making by being away from her husband while supporting his commitment to public service.

The majority of us in the Northland is and will be much better off with the re-election of Congressman Cravaack.

Bob Hansen

Bayfield

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