I attended the Lincoln-Reagan dinner in Kalspell. Here is what I witnessed. Mr. Zinke and the three competitors vying for the one congressional seat were asked to respond with yes or no answers to several questions. Mr. Zinke was the only one of the four who could not reply as required to some of the questions.

In some cases Ryan Zinke sidestepped the questions with excuses which gave many of us in the audience great concern. These questions were softballs, and yet he could not take a stand. What is his position regarding abortion, international trade agreements (Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), NSA spying on US citizens, a constitutional convention, education and Common Core, the Second Amendment, forest management/ownership, ending the Federal Reserve, the economy, getting the USA out of the United Nations, and Obamacare? These are all serious conservative issues that need to be answered.

Mr. Zinke’s prior voting record is mediocre at best on many of these issues.

Will he step up to the plate as the conservative he claims to be, or will he sell us into slavery and the New World Order/One World Government as the rest of the neo-cons, progressives, and socialists in control in Washington, D.C., are currently doing? My take: he will choose the low road and not stand and defend the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and fight for our freedom.

John O’Neil, Kalispell