Letter: Thanks for Clarifying

I just wanted to reach out and say thank you. I had several of you in the community reach out via phone, text, and email to thank me for my original response to Liz Cain's letter to the editor in the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch. I appreciate your feedback on my response and want you to know that it means a lot to me that it resonated with so many of you.

I additionally want to say thank you to Liz for her response last week. She was kind enough to send me an email with her response prior to it being printed in the event I wanted to respond in the same issue. Unfortunately I was already on deadline for a couple of other items and wasn't able to respond until this week.

I appreciate her feedback to the letter I wrote, and agree with some of her points. I also noticed that the more conservative ad was changed, and I believe it has a better portrayal of what the ad participants truly meant, although I cannot speak directly for them. I also appreciate that Liz reached out to me directly and we're planning to get together to discuss some of our different viewpoints in a constructive, rather than divisive manner.

It's good to know that even in small towns, two people with varying views can have a dialogue and attempt to listen and understand the other through communication.

My hope is that others in Lincoln can do the same thing and be the example for how it could work, rather than the way it seems to be everywhere else.

Tammy Jordan

Lincoln