Editor,

April 15 is the day we demonstrate our commitment and loyalty to our nation, sharing details of our economic transactions with our fellow citizens through the filing of tax returns. We also put our money where our loyalties lie by paying taxes, intended for the common good.

True loyalties don’t lie.

This Saturday, April 15, people around the country will gather to ask our president to show us where his loyalties lie — double entendre intended — by releasing his tax returns. They will show us how he manages his investments, to whom he is beholden, who are the recipients of his generosity and where lie his conflicts of interest. The holder of the highest office in our land bears the heaviest burden of public life: voluntary loss of privacy. Financial dealings represent our core values, for better or for worse. Our president owes us the complete revelation of his loyalties if he expects loyalty and support from us. This president claims to value “loyalty.” It’s time for him to prove it.

Take time out of your busy schedules to participate in our regional rally, which begins at Causland Park in Anacortes at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 15. Hear speakers and music, sing a couple of songs together, and peacefully, powerfully, demonstrate OUR loyalty to one another, to healthy democracy and to the best of the United States of America. At 3 p.m. our sidewalk-respecting march begins. We’ll drop off postcards to our president along the way. “President Trump: Show Us Your Tax Returns.”

We have responsibilities not only to one another as neighbors and nation, but to the rest of the world. Let’s join our hearts, voices, strength and true patriotism on April 15.

Heidi L. Fish

Anacortes