Interview With Rogan

* Re “James E. Rogan,” Valley Perspective Interview, Feb. 28.

In the interview [Rogan] says his margin of victory in 1998 (during the impeachment scandal) was larger than his margin of victory in 1996 (when no impeachment scandal was going on). The facts are: In 1998, he won by 3% of the vote; in 1996, he won by 7% of the vote.

DEAN T. HARTWELL

Glendale

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* Rogan wins the award for, on the floor of the Senate, hurling the battle cry, “None of your damned business!” at the president’s counsel. This occurred when the president’s lawyers asked, as is appropriate, to see the excerpts from the witnesses’s depositions the House managers intended to use in final arguments.

Intemperate, unjudicial, Rogan helped formulate and lead an impeachment inquiry that should never have been started, was ineptly conducted and brought everlasting disgrace upon the House of Representatives. It is no wonder that the Senate, as Rogan complains, treated the House managers “like a bunch of serfs.”

LAWRENCE SILVERTON

Encino

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* In the Feb. 28 Times interview, Rogan was asked point blank if he planned to run again. Rogan replied, “I don’t know, and even if I did know I wouldn’t tell you.” He made this denial while a current mailer from his campaign sits on my desk asking for a contribution to reelect Rogan to Congress.

While Rogan defends voting his conscience, remember, that conscience cost us more than $50 million for a cause that was knowingly lost from the start.

LES PERKINS

Glendale