To the editor,

Do we want this person to represent us Wisconsin’s 3^rd District or anyplace? Rep. Derrick Van Orden! Senate pages are a group of 16- and 17-year-olds who assist in Senate operations. They were resting in the Capitol rotunda recently as the Senate was working late, and snapping pictures of the historic rotunda dome. Van Orden came across them, said to them, and I quote, “Wake the f--- up you little sh---. What the f--- are you all doing? Get the f--- out of here. You are defiling the space you pieces of sh--.

There’s more, but you get the idea. This individual apparently has no empathy, no understanding, no emotional control, and frankly no sense to treat young people (or anyone) this way. He needs to be voted out at the earliest opportunity, or perhaps expelled.

Alvina Stainer

River Falls