I vehemently object to your 1/19 editorial ("A Confederacy of Sleazes"), which characterizes Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields as one of "New York City's stupider Democratic politicians..." Anyone who has endured one of Fields' rambling cliche-laden speeches or suffered through her incoherent rants of political doublespeak will respond that she is not merely one of New York City's stupider politicians. She is, undoubtedly, the stupidest.

S. Dempsey, Manhattan
NY Press Mail section
February, 2000