Campaign Funds

Your editorial writer (“A Tough List for Zhu,” April 6) refers to the “alleged funneling of $300,000” from China to Clinton’s 1996 presidential campaign, citing your own April 4 report as evidence. Even though your editorial has built in a disclaimer with “alleged,” you could have been more accurate by using some of the facts your reporters provided: “Only a portion of the $300,000 made it into Democratic campaign coffers, records show.”

Neither does it appear that your cartoonist, Michael Ramirez, took time to get the facts before drawing another highly superficial view of this “China scandal.” If Ramirez is really concerned about the scandalous use of money in our political campaigns, he might look into why a vote on the bipartisan Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill is being delayed by Congress again this year. That issue might perpetuate less hostility than his usual work and show that Ramirez is capable of attacking real issues with more light than heat.

JUNE MAGUIRE

Mission Viejo