Callers comment on development, housing policies, the open container law and more
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• For every developer’s approved plan to clear-cut every huge shade tree, both the city and county commissioners essentially added tons of carbon dioxide to the air that those trees would have otherwise naturally removed. The commissioners also added tons and thousands of square acres of concrete, both of which increase the air temperature ... throughout west Gainesville, thus creating Gainesville’s own climate change crisis.
• Because of Gainesville City Commissioners’ $3.1 billion biomass tree-burner debacle, they are desperate for tax revenue. So desperate, they are willing to compromise public safety and health to build high-rise developments in and around our single-family neighborhoods citywide.
• It’s not the City Commission that will be responsible for money loss when the open container law is revoked; it will be the shameless, spineless and weak cowards who bring guns downtown during times when people are out having fun. A simple slight from a nonexistent insult makes these cowards think they are whole only if rounds fly. The shooters are just like the shameless, cowardly, spineless and weak politicians who spend so much time sucking up to gun makers who put profits over people.
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• After the senseless deaths in a Buffalo grocery store and now a west Texas school, I can only wonder if Congresswoman Kat Cammack is getting ready to film another one of her campaign ads with her toting her guns and, along with her Republican colleagues, continue to do nothing.
• Commonsense gun safety, Mr. DeSantis! You might only care about the money you get from the NRA for your campaign, but we care about all of the children who have to die because your party and base only cares about the almighty dollar. If it happened in Tallahassee and to your child, a niece or a nephew, maybe you would bust your every hour to pass safer gun protection.
• Fly to Washington, Mr. DeSantis, and tell the Republican Senate enough is enough and we will not turn our back on our children. Oh, no, wait a minute — I dreamed this. Mr. DeSantis, he isn’t flying to Washington to save it. I dreamed it all last night. Let’s all tell our governor that we want to have not these horrible dreams, but we want them to become reality. The root of all evil is money, and the murders are also because of money.
• Definition of hypocrisy: former President Trump speaking at the recent NRA annual conference in Houston where no guns, knives or laser pointers were permitted in the general assembly hall to protect Trump’s safety. Need I say more?
• Next time you vote for elected officials, find out the candidates’ positions on commonsense gun controls such as universal background checks and a ban on semi-automatic assault rifles, then vote as if your child’s life depends on it — because it does.
• Those (students) from the P.K. Yonge food fight should not have walked with their classmates. Besides all the inconvenience and expense they caused everyone else in the cafeteria, they wasted food for their own frivolous amusement. Considering how many food drives this county sees every year, this is disgraceful and disgusting!
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