ETHICS
Stadium perks show
why trust is lacking
The article, “Stadium lobbyists give officials perks” (News, Nov. 13) reinforces why Georgia leadership has lost the public trust.
If legislators believe that they need to attend football games and other events to better understand the workings of a particular business, then they should buy their tickets for the full fan experience. There is so much of this going on that it is impossible to keep up with.
The AJC needs to keep a scorecard (in table format) for all our state legislators that tracks the voting record of each legislator; lists their campaign contributors and amounts; how much they received in “perks” and from whom, and current tax status. This should be published each week during the legislative session, with a summary published before the filing deadline for office, and the day before the election.
CRAIG CUDDEBACK, ATLANTA
PROBLEM SOLVING
Romney should share
his solutions for nation
For over a year, Mitt Romney had been speaking on his love of country; his getting America back on track; his knowing how to create millions of jobs; his knowing how to reduce the deficit; his knowing how to repeal the latest health care plan in lieu of a better one, and his knowing how to fix Medicare and Social Security so they do not go broke.
Would it be the ultimate tribute to the U.S. if Mitt Romney finally shared all of these wonderful solutions with the president, now that the election is over?
What do you do now? Pack these wonderful ideas away in a suitcase and place them under the bed, so that the country will never know what they were in store for, had he won?
It is not who won or lost, or who is a Republican or a Democrat. I would love to see politicians come together for one common cause: building a better America for one and all.
BRUCE CODRINGTON, ROSWELL
POLITICS
Voters want 2 sides
to start cooperating
Regarding “Romney offered to work with other side” (Readers write, Opinion, Nov. 12), with all due respect to the author of this letter, with President Obama winning re-election, he has more than earned the the right to expect the “other side” to work with him.
The voters of this country have sent a clear message to the “other side” to cease being the “party of no,” and to work with the president and the Senate to improve the future of our great country.
KEVIN DIXON, BALL GROUND
SECESSION
Let South Carolina go,
Bulldogs could benefit
I understand that people in a number of states have petitioned to secede from the Union following the recent election results. South Carolina, for example, had more than 9,000 people sign a petition. I encourage South Carolina’s governor to pursue the petition for several reasons.
For example, it would ensure that the Georgia Bulldogs would have an unbeaten season, and get South Carolina out of 49th place in the Union for practically everything.
IAN SHAW, CUMMING
ELECTIONS
Advice to columnist:
Get back to reality
After reading Thomas Sowell’s “Romney tried to out-nice Obama, and ‘rotten’ won”( Opinion, Nov. 13), I agree with former McCain adviser Steve Schmidt, who recently stated that when some voters hear the term “conservative,” they think of “wackos” and “loons.”
Mr. Sowell’s comment that President Obama is pushing this nation in the direction of arbitrary one-man rule should not be taken seriously by anyone. Let us get back to reality, Mr. Sowell — and try to keep the knee-jerk rhetoric to a minimum.
TORIN TOGUT, LAWRENCEVILLE
