“Dear Editor”
In the December/January issue of The Blue Note, we encouraged all party members to let their voices be heard through many avenues, including letters to the editor. And many Dorchester Democrats did just that! Below you’ll find clippings of some of those letters to the editor, along with links to read them in full online. (And if we overlooked yours … much apologies! Send us a message and we’ll make sure it’s in the next issue.) We’re also reposting the addresses to local newspapers where you can submit your own letters, too! Here’s one from party chairman Richard Hayes that made the Post & Courier earlier this year:
Susen Shapiro’s letter made the Journal Scene:
“In my opinion the Republican Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the health insurance industry and other profit-hungry corporations. In case there is any doubt, the Republicans have hired insurance and health care industry lobbyists for key positions on committees and staffs.”
“It seems to me that it is inappropriate for an elected official to insult the citizens at a public meeting. If Mr. Hearn doesn't think he should represent and respect all citizens of Dorchester County, whether or not they agree with him, then he is a poor example of a Councilman.”
Click here to read the rest of Hayes’ letter.
Click here to read the entire letter. Dr. David Rison’s letter to the local newspaper:
Here’s Marty Turney’s letter to Journal Scene: “These 4 items are neither Republican nor Democratic suggestions. Rather they are suggestions that we as a state together can support or we can just sit in our lovely state with our memorable Civil War history and do nothing but complain.” Click here to read the entire letter. Rob Groce’s recent Journal Scene letter: “Our state congress recently passed a bill requiring voters to provide government-issued photo identification on election days. It remains a mystery, though, why Republican officials – who were the only ones who voted for this bill – insisted on it.” Click here to read the entire letter
Where to Send Your Letters (Be sure to include your street name, town and phone number!)
Post & Courier letters@postandcourier.com Journal Scene jwatts@journalscene.com Eagle Record eagle_record@bellsouth.net Charleston City Paper editor@charlestoncitypaper.com OR submit your letter on its website: http://posting.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/ SubmitALetter/Page
“I hope that the County Council will not try to reduce county expenditures in these hard financial times by cutting the small sum that Dorchester County residents pay to support our public libraries.” Click here to read the rest of the opinion letter.
Here are a couple from Marylou & Bob Ielfield that appeared in the Post & Courier: “Our budget problem is partially due to the national economy but also to the fact that our Republican leadership, under Sen. Glenn McConnell and Speaker Bobby Harrell, with its obsessive dread of taxes has brought our economy to the danger point.” Click here to read the rest of the above letter to the editor. “We look forward to reading the secret of a short-term General Assembly member who, in 2010, had just one bill passed, which pertained to cosmetologists, and who had serious problems with the Internal Revenue Service concerning both her personal and business taxes and had to be rescued by being given a $110,000 job by the CEO of a large hospital group. It will also be interesting to hear why her first official action was to give large raises to her personal staff, and why she talked about restoring the food tax and seemed to have no clue to addressing a budget deficit of nearly a billion dollars.” Click here to read all of that letter.