Mayor just trying to wake up nodding voters

Mayor

just trying to wake up nodding voters

Re: "Mayor

Bob" editorial [The Citizen, Oct. 20]: The editorial

doesn't speak well of the news media.

Mayor Lenox was just trying

to generate the registered voters to awake from their

apathy which has prevailed in this community for too

long. 20 percent of the voters, 15 percent, etc., doesn't

speak too well for the people of this community or this

nation.

The news media should be

encouraging the get out to vote program [with] headlines

on the front page. The dictators of this world just love

your attitude; that is how they come to power, that is

how they keep power.

May I remind you also that

your paper is supposed to serve the public. I, along with

thousands of others that have fought and died to preserve

this nation, did so a person could speak out to make

voices heard in a community so involved with all their

selfish interests that they must take to keep the second

and third cars, their big homes, but no time for setting

an example for the youth of this nation.

I was granted a franchise

to vote at age 21, and vote I have in every election,

even when I was in combat, no matter what the issue. If

World War II didn't stop me, then it can't stop me now.

Maybe they should amend the

Constitution to drop any voters' right to vote if they

have missed two elections in a row. Maybe that would

awake the voter. It appears that you and others would

rather they sleep and just nod their heads in agreement.

Bill Aleshire

Peachtree City

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