Letter to the Editor/ Monterey Herald/ July 25, 2023

In case you were wondering what our government would be like under Republican control, consider this: last month 19 GOP state attorneys general signed on to a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, seeking the power to access private medical records of its citizens who seek reproductive procedures (translation: they might choose to get an abortion in a state that allows it). Yes, these attorney generals want the power to take the medical records of their state’s citizens, for possible investigations of crimes, even from a different state! Does anybody remember when Republicans called themselves the party of small government?

— Arlen Grossman