In 2014, Coloradans voted to protect their guns. What we got was more slashed education and nutrition programs, and the “personhood” of a woman repeatedly denied. The Republicans who rejected the school Start Smart nutrition program should lose their jobs, not the cafeteria worker who fed the hungry children. Kent Lambert defended the cut, saying that churches would take over this problem. If that were so, Texas would have the healthiest children in the world. It doesn’t; 25 percent of Texas children face food insecurity and hunger. Texas politicians grease the lucrative school-to-prison pipeline. Who do you think benefits?

Nationally, the Republicans are zealous over slashing food stamps to those they humiliate and demean. Nobody is feeding the children that conservatives force low-income women to bear through their illegal religious laws that deny access to birth control and health care. How long will we stand for the Republicans’ programmed failure for women and children? It is a disaster.

Now, politicians are all aflutter over a manipulated and partisan manufactured video to strike poses and destroy Planned Parenthood. They will deny low-income people access to health care and create a stimulus package to fill privatized prison cells. Not only is the cheap labor almost free, it is totally captive to the corporate profits that fund the politicians. This is a how-to manual to make slavery appear legal. Will we vote for the American Legislative Exchange Council with the politicians they’ve bought to grow their undernourished child mill?

Stephanie Johnson

Durango