Pocono Record Town Hall: A PA without choice, or a world akin to Soviet-era Russia?
This October, we asked readers what their motivation was for heading to the polls this November. We also asked what issues were most important to them.
Here are the latest responses to our month-long Town Hall prompt.
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Read last week's responsesTown Hall: Pocono Record readers discuss why they vote
Unless you're a senior citizen, you don't remember world without choice
Unless you're a senior citizen you don't remember a world with blatant environmental degradation, a time when the Delaware River was so polluted that shad couldn't return to their native spawning grounds or when unregulated industrial waste spewed carbon pollution from smokestacks, resulting in “smog alerts.”
Beyond the sentiment for youth and lost loved ones, it wasn't a pretty time.
Rosemary Brown would rather your neighbors and state legislators make critical health care decisions for you, your daughters and your granddaughters.
Rosemary Brown’s anti-environment voting record will be a burden to generations of future Pennsylvania taxpayers.
That's not what I want to leave behind for my children and grandchildren.
Jennifer Shukaitis isn’t beholden to wealthy developers or special interest groups — instead she’s committed to an economy and jobs that rely upon an environmentally healthy NEPA.
Jennifer Shukaitis believes our daughters and granddaughters, and their doctors, should be the ones to make critical health care decisions that could save their lives.
Take Pennsylvania forward into a better future, not backward to a less safe and unhealthy past.
VOTE between now and November 8th. Leave this world better than we found it by voting for Jennifer Shukaitis, 40th Senate District.
Ann Foster - Senior Citizen, Cresco
What is happening with this election cycle?
Can someone please explain to me what is going on in our current election cycle. It is a well known fact that the party in power always loses congressional seats in the mid term elections. Obama lost more than 60 seats, over his inability to solve the financial problems and Obamacare. Now we have a president and a party that have given us the highest inflation in 40 years, a non existent Southern border, crime on a scale that we've never seen, a depleted oil reserve and no hope of correction in sight, and yet we wonder if they will lose the Congress in the mid terms. I see ads for Cartwright telling me what a great job he has done.
What I see is a man who voted for every Democrat failure over the past 2 years and another Democrat who contributed to their majority. I see Democrat Senators who have done the same and now want us to believe they will be independent if only reelected.
What I really see is a party, Democrats, who are a very accomplished group of liars, who will say what ever is needed to get elected. Remember Biden told us he was a moderate and would bring the country together. Since then he has gotten kudos from Bernie Sanders, the Socialist, saying he could not have done a better job himself, and called roughly half the country semi fascists, for disagreeing with him.
I have said to any who ask, that if the Republicans do not flip at least 100 seats, the US is finished as a world power and will soon go the way of the old Soviet Union.
Sal Meglio, Stroudsburg
Want to participate? Here's how
Our current prompt, should you choose to accept it, will remain: "What's your motivation for heading to the polls this November? What are the issues most important to you?" Let us know in a Town Hall response, submitted via email.
Participants should email submissions to be included in our next roundup, between 200 and 400 words, to afontones@poconorecord.com. Please put "Town Hall" in the subject line. Responses submitted without the proper subject line may be filtered away from our email inboxes in the newsroom.
We will run Town Hall responses as submissions allow, weekly until November 6. Please submit your responses by noon on November 3.
This article originally appeared on Pocono Record: Pocono Record readers present two contrasting views of mid terms
