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While Tom dazzled the By now, it is obvious that you will should nonpaying readers expect voters went to the polls. questioners and the audience with not reinstate the opinion columns. anything better? During “mid-term” elections, there facts, figures, and a long list of is always a lot of vitriol and sloga- accomplishments and specific solu- By cancelling these informative Elizabeth Ciesel neering. Sloganeering is the easy tions to specific problems, Bob Hurt columns, you have cheated Fluvanna Lake Monticello way to argue; it demands no facts could only fall back on old county voters and taxpayers. and plays on emotions without Republican bromides like cut taxes, The county issues, ideas and facts Vote My first opportunity to vote was regard to accuracy. Election results reduce spending, kill the health care that were discussed in these should not be determined by who bill, and Nancy Pelosi is the devil columns eradicated ignorance and- by absentee ballot in 1962 when I was stationed in Japan with the U.S. has the loudest or the more strident incarnate. He never indicated which invoked accountability and trans- voice. None of us who care about taxes he would cut (neglecting to parency among county officials. Navy. I was 22 at the time. I have not missed the opportunity to vote at our nation, our state and community observe that Barack Obama and Tom It was curious how the week any time since: neither when I have must take the route a friend of mine already cut taxes for 95% of tax pay- before you made your editorial been deployed at sea or overseas has decided upon, who, believing ers) and never told us what programs announcement about ending these during my 8 years of active duty in that the process is too confrontation- he would cut. He would "repeal and columns, you placed the two the Navy nor during periods when I al, and therefore is divisive, has replace" health care reform but columns opposite each other on the was on official business abroad dur- extracted himself from the process. replace it with what remains a mys- left and right side of the pages. This ing my 31 years with the Office of We have an obligation to other mem- tery. certainly added to the built up fric- Naval Intelligence. The act of voting bers of our community to vote for Dick Bucci tion and ignited your case against is a privilege and responsibility that I what we believe is right. Don’t let Palmyra the columns even further. must fulfill. No one should opt out slogans deter you from the polls on If you can't resurrect both of that responsibility. November 2. Perriello’s Vote columns, then bring back William I saw on a web site, Peter Allen The mid-term election is fast upon Des Rochers. His column was the FamilyEducation.com, that in the Palmyra us and there may be some confusion one that had the long, substantive U.S. ”only 54 percent of eligible vot- about an alleged vote by Mr.Perriello tenure and gained my respect. ers cast ballots the last four decades Perriello Dazzled to take $500 million from the Social Sometimes I think that Mr. Moss was on Presidential elections…. and only I hope you had the opportunity to Security fund resulting in a burden brought in those last few months as about 37 percent during mid-term watch the Tuesday night debate to seniors. I haven’t checked Mr. a catalyst to create fervor to oust Des elections…. The U.S. ranks 35th in between Tom Perriello and Robert Perriello’s vote, but even if he voted Rochers. voter turnout out of the world's Hurt. I was there at Piedmont to take a billion from the fund, it Whoever had input into this axing prominent democracies.” Compare Virginia Community College along wouldn’t make a dent in it. The fund decision; you alone, you and your this to some less “prominent” with several others that formed the is more than sound through 2038. partners, backers, advertisers, democracies: in Afghanistan in 2004, Fluvanna contingent. In my humble Furthermore, if that was his vote he maybe even local officials, it was a 83 percent of eligible voters went to opinion if this were a boxing match was doing exactly what the folks of the polls; in the Central African Tom would have won by TKO in the Authorized Shipping Center We Put The Express in Your Shipping Mon.-Fri. 9-6 & More! 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