Letter to the editor: Roanoke Times reader wonders about why Bob Goodlatte (R-Va) is so timid to face his constituents.

“Let’s be honest,” said Jennifer Lewis, “He just doesn’t want to face the people he is hurting. He knows he is hurting the health and well-being of every day Virginians by his dangerous rhetoric and legislation.”

“He knows he is a hypocrite for claiming to be pro-life when he is signing off on people’s death sentences by trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act while getting taxpayer-funded healthcare himself. He knows his voters are concerned about Russian involvement in our democracy, and he doesn’t have the courage to face them,” she said in a September 17 letter to the editor.

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