It’s your circus, and he’s your monkey!

by Steve Reinbrecht

It’s time for local politicians to comment on Donald Trump.

It’s your circus, and he’s your monkey!

Write a letter to the Reading Eagle if you have to, even if no reporter calls, [like DA John Adams did about a DUI hearing held in private, and got it published.]

Will you support Trump if he wins the nomination?

Berks voters deserve to know. Why wait? 

The Eagle ran a story in December in which local politicians "slammed" Trump.

What do local elected officials think now, after votes have been cast?

Other political leaders are stating their positions.

“Yet, incredibly, the other candidates in the race — Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich — all said they’d support Trump if he wins the nomination.”

“Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman, told CBS’s John Dickerson that his ‘role is to basically be 100 percent behind’ the eventual nominee.”

“At the time of writing a single Republican senator, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, has declared that if Mr Trump is his party’s nominee, he will back an independent conservative. Many more Republicans have said, queasily, that they will back whoever the party nominates. Others are not even that squeamish. On February 26th Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey endorsed Mr Trump,” the Economist reported March 5.

Serious political leaders are publicly saying they will support Donald Trump for president.

What about Berks County?

We elected these people, so we deserve to know what they think about the biggest political issue of the century.

The Reading Eagle ran a story March 3 trying to gauge local sentiment.

But the article in Berks County's top news gathering institution has almost nothing from Berks County legislators.

Most of the content is a rehash of general national comment. I NEED LOCAL NEWS! This is a huge story. What do our local leaders think? Are they too chicken to say?

The reporter quotes one person who represents Berks, U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello, a Republican from Chester County.

"In an email, U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello said it's too early to consider who he'd support for president.”

Here was the chance to say, “WHAT? THIS GUY? FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?”