We need to undo ‘Citizens United’
There are a lot of jokes about the Supreme Court ruling “Citizens United,” including the judgment itself. Such as, “I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.” That corporations are not citizens is so transparently obvious that one can only conclude the supreme law of the land has been deliberately twisted to favor business interests of citizens. That seems to me an impeachable offense for any public official who has taken an oath to protect the Constitution. The first step should be to reverse that decision with a constitutional amendment.
TOM FERGUSON, ATLANTA
Democrats tried to rig voting as well
Like columnist Jay Bookman, I don’t see anything wrong with Sunday voting (“The more voters the better?” Opinion, Sept. 14). However, Bookman’s charge that the GOP would try to discourage participation in voting to ensure its future is an indication that he’s completely forgotten the Democrats’ ACORN debacle. And to answer his question: Yes, the more legal voters, the better.
JACK FRANKLIN, CONYERS
Libertarians can only play spoiler
As the recent AJC poll shows, our state is almost evenly divided on moral, social, economic and political issues (“Poll: Major races are major tossups,” News, Sept. 14). Another obvious thing this poll shows is that once again, in a very important election, the Libertarians will prove to be nothing but spoilers for Republicans or Democrats. The Libertarian Party has no chance of electing its candidate to be governor or senator, yet it keeps running candidates for both positions, taking votes mainly from Republicans if Libertarians vote their conscience and beliefs.
With all that is at stake in this election, particularly at the federal level, I would encourage our Libertarian friends to not waste their vote with a useless protest vote, but make their vote count this time, one way or the other.
SHEPARD S. AVERITT IV, CUMMING
Woodruff’s goal is smaller symphony
How can ASO president Stanley Romanstein say with a straight face that he desires a contract with the musicians that will “give us great flexibility in how we hire and under what circumstances we hire,” when this is really business gibberish for downsizing the orchestra (“Orchestra’s smaller size becomes big issue,” News, Sept. 13)? A bigger questions is how the Woodruff Arts Center prioritizes the ASO relative to its other components.
If Woodruff truly cannot afford a first-class orchestra, then it should say so, and present a plan for a second-class orchestra of reduced size and quality. In keeping with this philosophy, perhaps Woodruff could also firm its finances by selling off the best works of the High Museum, or better yet, replace the whole ASO with a CD player on stage playing some of the orchestra’s Grammy-winning recordings.
JOHN POOLER, DORAVILLE
