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Letters for Oct. 25, 2009
Published October 25, 2009
Letters to the Editor published in The Facts:
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Ashby gets it wrong on Fox News viewers
I remember when Lynn Ashby wrote for the Houston Post, and was a pretty down-home, back-porch, Leon Hale type of writer. He didn’t know anything, but we admired his writing style. He still doesn’t know anything, and now all he — like the Obama administration — wants to do is bash Fox News. He cites a Pew Research study, which he says shows Fox News viewers are all “ignorant,” and “don’t know squat.”
What he really reveals is his own ignorance, or his own bias, because he either misinterpreted or misrepresented the Pew data. It actually showed that Fox News viewers finished at 19, slightly above the national average of 18, and almost twice as high as CBS News viewers at 10.
I would characterize Fox News viewers as astute, street-smart Americans.
Most know that Democrats are a bunch of deceitful, dishonest, devious, conniving, scheming, manipulating, controlling (did I miss anything?), scoundrels who will use any trick in the book to sneak stuff in the legislative back door, while shills like Ashby, Pitts and Lyons try to cover for them.
Roy Yates, Freeport
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Republicans should be for small government
Ex-Gov. Mitt Romney,R-Mass., is proving voters were correct to reject him as the representative of the Republican Party in the 2008 presidential election. During a recent interview on the Sean Hannity show, Romney said each state should devise a health plan for its residents before a national plan was implemented.
Romney argues each state would be a “laboratory” conducting experiments. The federal government, he says, then could take from each experiment what is successful and implement a national system. I did not know Romney was a proponent of universal health care, but I do know now. Romney’s statement is indicative of the attitudes and beliefs of today’s Republican Party. Are there any Republicans in this world who still believe in a smaller, less intrusive, less taxing government?
The Democrats are the party promoting national health care. It seems as if the Republicans feel they also must propose reform, but with some differences. If the Republicans wish to differentiate themselves from the Democrats they should unabashedly oppose national health care plans. To do otherwise would confirm most conservatives’ view that there really is no difference between the two major political parties.
Carl Goodson, Clute
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County should make every complaint public
Brazoria County Commissioners Court from legal counsel has, because of true embarrassment, so ordered residents to ask permission and be limited in free speech in defiance of the Constitution of our republic. Left unchallenged, the order shall elude to more power to control citizens from free speech, free choice.
Under court authority to hire public administrators and failure to discipline gives citizen just cause to direct true embarrassment (blindsiding). From flawed performance and after personal and written complaints to be controlled in any manner by the court gives rife to disrespect and a call for exposure of an elected government. How about this? Open Government commitment: Have every complaint be made public by the court.
Mismanagement is salted with oversight, but to admit and correct is mandatory to preclude embarrassment and outcry by residents. Is the court so stressed it has to seek condescending reason from government counsel to curtail by order the fear of malfeasance?
The yeast that gives rise to open government is the right of a free election, speech and choice. To rise to the occasion of your right, will you rise before the court for cause of free speech?
John Corder, Brazoria
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West Columbia can do more to market itself
I have read in an article awhile back that the city of West Columbia has decided to stop funding its Little League because of money problems. West Columbia’s money problems are its own fault.
A city rich in history failing to market that history, West Columbia has instead destroyed its history. All that marks the First Capitol of the Republic of Texas is a star and some plaques.
There are other communities which have marketed their history and make money doing it.
A historic district with old-style buildings to replicate the city as it was back then would be a good start. Each building could have shops selling trinkets and souvenirs, much like The Strand in Galveston. That would be a winner. The San Jacinto Day Celebration could be weeklong celebrations complete with recreationists in historic dress, and a carnival would put the celebration on the map.
Bennie Cady, Brazoria
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