I have wanted to write to you about what people have said they didn’t like in the paper.
One woman was revolted about a previous letter to the editor. But she doesn’t have to take the paper. The other one was a man who wanted to exhume the bodies in local graves of Nazis and Italians who fought against the U.S. Was he going to pay for them to be exhumed and send them back to Germany and Italy? I didn’t think he would do that.
And the last one: Why did Gov. Bill Lee put on a Confederate-like uniform in the first place (Feb. 22) if he didn’t like the South, and why is he still in the South? If he didn’t like the South, let him go up to Washington.
Thank you for letting me tell you this.
Barbara Hearn Booth
Fleischmann gun vote is disgraceful
The terrorist organization ISIS instructs its followers in the U.S. to go to gun shows to purchase weapons because there are no IDs or background checks required. House Bill 8 would have closed that loophole in the law by requiring most gun sales in the U.S. to have a background check, a policy supported by 94 percent of citizens, according to the most recent Quinnipiac poll, and over 70 percent of NRA members in other polls.
But Rep. Chuck Fleischmann ignored the will of the people and voted against the bill, saying it “infringes on the Constitutional rights of gun owners.” His statement is patently false and is nothing more than an excuse to support the powerful NRA lobby that represents gun manufacturers.
The Supreme Court ruled in Heller v. DC that governments can impose reasonable restrictions on gun sales. That opinion was articulated, not by a liberal judge, but by conservative justice Antonin Scalia.
Rep. Fleischmann’s vote is disgraceful. He and other public office holders who refuse to support common-sense gun control measures are being facilitators of mass school shootings and terrorist acts and should be voted out of office.
Marc Kenyon
Soddy-Daisy
Catoosa SPLOST votes underhanded
Catoosa government has a history of underhandedness in its special-purpose-local-option-sales-tax (SPLOST) referendums.
In 2018, a general election year, it scheduled the SPLOST vote for the primary instead of the general election.
The SPLOST passed.
In the primary, only 5,284 voted.
In the general, 23,837 voted.
We can assume, from the above totals, the majority of voters are independents. They probably never thought there would be a vote on anything other than party candidates. Therefore, 18,533 independents did not get a chance to vote on the SPLOST question.
Now the Catoosa government is doing the same thing with a referendum on March 19 for an additional new SPLOST. I would think the great majority of voters would never expect an election to be held in March. So we have tainted democracy in Catoosa county.
Dana Wilson
Rossville, Georgia