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Committee Chairs See White House, Not Country
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To the editor:
This is a reminder to all support
ers of the Radical Republican and
Christian Coalition that President
Clinton was elected by 43 percent of
an extremely large voter turnout,
while the recent election was deter
mined by a mere total of 37 percent
turnout.
Admittedly, it is difficult to regis
ter as a Democrat or Republican in
our times. It is high time that voters
start to get educated and learn the
facts prior to casting a vote. You can
be sure that among the mere 37 per
cent who made sure to go to the
polls. 1(XT percent of that small num
ber were the radicals, the tobacco,
NRA, health and oil lobbies.
That sure leaves a majority of
very discontented or lazy voters at
home with a very negative attitude.
The attitude is understandable in this
day and age. but responsibility for
the future is also a weight that we el
ders must bear.
Had the powerful chairmanships
of Congress passed into the hands of
moderates and not radicals, we prob
ably would have had a productive
government until the next election.
Instead, we have a hunch of power
hungry chairmen looking at the
white Mouse in ivvn, and not at our
country in IW4
As an Independent. I am hoping
for the best, as some good came
from the past elections, such as the
defeat of Oliver North, Tom Foley
and Rostenkowski We partially
cleaned out Congress, but the job
won't be done until we get rid of
Gingrich. Dole, (iramm. D'Amato
and Helms.
Raymond L Ratigan
Calabash
A Quick Response
To the editor:
Along with so many others, we
wish to thank the Tri-Bcach Fire
Department for their quick response
to the recent fire on Holdcn Beach
Though we always had faith that
such would be the case, to have it
proven makes everyone feel more
secure
Jim Lowell
for Greater Holdcn Beach
Merchants Association
Zone Is ' Dizzy Dream '
Of Bureaucrats, Boards
To the editor:
The story of the Alice Crockett
family in the Southport area, not be
ing able to build their homes on
their family land of many years, ver
ifies the disgrace of our zoning ordi
nance and the people that put it to
gether.
The Southport Town Board was
informed in 1992 that the soon-to
be-adopted county zoning ordinance
that the public favored was flawed
in bureaucratic design and would be
detrimental to the residential charac
ter of the Southport, Oak Island and
Boiling Spring lakes communities.
At that time, the Southport Town
Board sent a representative to a
county meeting, wrote a letter to the
county planning board and then sat
on its hands and watched as the pro
tection the public sought was prosti
tuted into a dizzy dream of a super
Heavy Manufacturing Zone
Bureaucrats, with the depth of the
finish on cheap furniture, decided
that a river and a railroad made an
industrial metropolis. This was done
with no regard to the thousands of
people and their homes that were, in
fact, on the ground. Moreso it vivid
i y points up the rr.asim
people contribute to evil things
when they stand by and do nothing.
It seems that the present planning
board is beginning to understand
when they have flesh and blood peo
ple standing in front of them plead
ing for what is and always has been
their home. Will th boards that sat
on their hands get involved and not
sit and watch? Will the residential
nature of this area be recognized and
protected?
Hard to say. None of us weai
three-piece suits.
Bob Quinn
Southport
Don't Let The Courts
Become Our Legislatures
To the editor:
Prior to the election, George
Will's column expressed some very
profound thoughts regarding our na
tional judicial system. He discussed
the tendency for our court judges to
turn courts into legislatures. "What
ever the judges deem unfair or un
wise must be unconstitutional."
Specifically referencing Calif
ornia's Proposition 187, he stated
that probably there would be no
Prop 187 if elected officials had not
been "corrupted by the culture of ju
dicial activism and had been delight
ed. ..to allow a court to take custody
of a convenient problem."
Here we taxpayers are far from
California and have no Prop 187,
but we do have the "inconvenient
problem." The county school budget
fcec2!T*e the ??>"? no? conveniently
handled with the county system of
government. The school committee
processed an appeal to an apparently
friendly court to support budget al
location in excess of the commission
authorization. The court decision
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tee's total amount requested based
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of reasonable and legal parameters
for an effective school system, cer
tainly would be appropriate.
James P. Jackson
Calabash
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