Teri Hickel and her team obviously admit that she can’t run on her own positive achievements and qualities – they’ve immediately jumped to trashy hit pieces spouting nonsense about her opponent. I received one of these pieces, which says nothing positive about Hickel, opting instead to smear our current representative with doctored quotes and B-movie-quality altered photos. It’s the kind of scaremongering we’re all exhausted by.

It’s shameful and ugly and it’s absolutely beneath the dignity of someone wanting to represent us. I hadn’t decided who I’ll vote for come November, but it’s hard to imagine voting for someone who so gleefully rushes to lowest-common-denominator tripe that’s more at home on a shrill cable news show than in my mailbox.

Hickel needs to get her harpies in line. Barring an apology, I’m pretty sure a vote for her is a vote for louder, dumber grandstanding in Olympia that makes getting things done even harder.

J.M. Ludwig, Federal Way