Letters: Issue 1 Frank LaRose's boneheaded waste of $20m. Franklin County jail is in Stone Age
Frank LaRose following in Larry Householder's footsteps
An estimate $20 million in taxpayers' money wasted on the Issue 1 initiative thanks to our bonehead Secretary of State Frank LaRose.
Thankfully, the voters in Ohio saw thru his pathetic attempt to obstruct democracy in our state. LaRose seems to be following in the footsteps of Larry Householder as the next arrogant, Republican loser.
As an independent voter who usually splits his votes between both parties, it has become harder and harder to vote for these dishonest, unethical Republicans.
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Even though Democrats seemingly want to give the country away, Republicans definitely want to steal the country from the voters.
Allan Bazzoli, Mount Vernon
Franklin County jail in Stone Age
The Franklin County Sheriff does a horrendous job in releasing prisoners from incarceration in a timely manner. Last week a client was ordered to be released by a judge prior to 11 a.m. and wasn’t released until approximately 3:30 a.m.
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In this age of texts, video calls, and computers, such a delay is unconscionable and economically wasteful.
It is time the sheriff’s office and jail get out of the Stone Age and quit holding people after they should be released.
Michael Oser, attorney, Columbus
You are that 'someone else'
I loved reading the July 12 column "'It's us,' 'there’s hope,' and four other things we must face about climate change."
The authors - experts from Ohio State University - make it clear that a majority of Americans are worried about global warming, and support policies that would mitigate that warming.
If only a small percentage of this worried majority were to contact their members of Congress and call for effective climate action Congress just might be compelled to act.
After all, a majority of American adults is more than 130 million people. What if one person in ten of these were to contact Congress about the need for climate action?
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That’s 13 million people!
If you are in the majority of people who are worried about global warming and want Congress to take continued action to solve it, please don’t wait for someone else to act.
You are that someone else.
Please contact your members of Congress and ask them to act on climate change. If you want to join a community of people who are doing just this, check out Citizens’ Climate Lobby at cclusa.org.
John Sabin, Oberlin
Our voices were heard, and it meant something
On Aug. 8, I was a poll worker in one of the Genoa Township voting sites.
There were 1,715 eligible voters at that site, and over the 13 hours the polls were open 1,002 walked through the doors to cast their votes in the Issue 1 special election.
Another 163 voted early or absentee.
So almost 68% of voters at that location let our state legislators know their feelings.
Across the state, that kind of turnout was repeated.
I walked out of that building being proud of all Ohioans. It is easy to vote the “party line.”
That did not happen on Aug. 8.
A message was sent to our elected officials to stop listening to a select handful of people who are influencing their policy making and get in tune with the general population.
Our voices were heard, and it meant something. I am hopeful that Ohioans continue to get up and go to the polls, to both voice their opinions on issues and select candidates who more closely mirror the feelings of the populace.
Mark Rowland, Galena
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Letters: Issue 1 is Frank LaRose's boneheaded waste of $20 million
