POLITICS
Candidates all lean to the extreme right
I read the page largely devoted to comparing the leading seven GOP senate candidates’ stands on several key issues (“On the issues,” News, April 27). The AJC needn’t have wasted precious newspaper space for this. They are all essentially the same candidate, based on the responses in the article. Their positions pander uncompromisingly to the far right, and hopefully this election represents the high-water mark for the GOP in Georgia. I keep reading that Georgia is becoming more diverse ethnically, that it is becoming a “purple” state. Yet the bills that were passed this year by the Legislature, such as the “Guns Everywhere” bill and the drug testing for welfare/food stamps bill that have been or will likely be signed by the governor, certainly don’t reflect this change. For the sake of all the people and not just a minority of extremists, let’s hope positive change in the Gold Dome is soon in the offing.
JEFFREY FRANKEL, MCDONOUGH
GOVERNANCE
Political episode left GPB tainted
It is really too sad, not to mention dispiriting and galling, that the stellar reputation of Georgia Public Broadcasting has been so sullied by Gov. Nathan Deal’s fingerprints, not unlike his involvement with the former state Ethics Commission debacle. That former state Sen. Chip Rogers has been removed from his job is heartening (“Details surface in Rogers’ exit from GPB job,” Metro, April 25), but Gov. Deal put him there and now is trying to cleanse his record by removing him. He gets no points in my book for correcting an ugly situation that he created in the first place. Georgia Public Broadcasting has been left a tainted pawn in his ever-changing political universe.
BARBARA M. MORGAN, COVINGTON
SECOND AMENDMENT
Democrats target gun owners’ rights
I just read in the paper today that a criminal got life in prison for killing a state trooper. He was charged with murder and “possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.” If only that criminal had obeyed the law, the trooper would be alive today. Wake up people, a million gun laws will not stop criminals from having or using a gun. They will only impede law-abiding citizens from that right. Even outright banning of all firearms will never keep them out of the hands of lawbreakers. If a Republican does not want a gun, he does not buy one. If a Democrat does not want a gun, he not only does not buy one, but he does his best to stop anyone else from having one as well.
MICHAEL DOSIE, COVINGTON
