Politics aside, we need more senators and representatives like Mark Hatfield (HCN, 9/5/11). We used to have a couple of politicians here in Arizona who were political opposites — I mean really opposite. But they both got things done for the state: the straight-talkin’ Barry Goldwater and the great (for the landscape) Udalls. Can we start a movement to limit the terms of senators and representatives?
Tom Taylor
Mesa, Arizona
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Where have all the Hatfields gone?.

