Let's stop the lies from anonymous sources
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Let's stop the lies from anonymous sources.
To the editor:
Anyone else getting tired of the political ad lies being told by front groups for anonymous big money interests in this midterm election? Anyone else at least a little upset that the right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has made it legal for corporations and big money interests to in effect buy elections? Are at least a few people aware that some of these front groups are run by the same people who lied the country into a unnecessary war that will cost over three trillion dollars before all costs are added up and cost the lives of over 4,400 American soldiers and over 100,000 Iraqis and the same people who engineered a near total collapse of the U.S. economy?
The latest lie by one of these groups is that Governor Strickland personally hired a Texas Company, employing foreign workers, to manage appliance rebate program when the truth is that, upon being informed, he issued an executive order banning the state from using public funds to purchase offshore services and asked for the resignation of the director of the program.
Most of the ads keep spewing out some variation on the lies that Strickland is personally responsible for Ohio job losses, that the Democratic candidate for office is responsible because they supported Obama's stimulus package that the front groups claim is responsible for the job losses, that the health reform bill will cost more jobs and put small businesses under and bankrupt the country or that President Obama and Democrats who supported him have betrayed the country by passing bills that they were elected to pass by an overwhelming majority of voters. The facts are that the stimulus package save hundreds of thousands of jobs and prevented another Great Depression, that the health care bill will reduce deficits according to the non partisan congressional budget office, and that the Democrats did their best to keep campaign promises.
One of my favorite ads now running claims that John Kasich, while a congressman, personally balanced the federal budget and cut government waste. Glad that was brought to light because all this time I thought that President Clinton, by submitting balanced budgets and Vice President Gore with his Making Government Work program were responsible.
If you want to end having the best government money can buy and want to stop having the public airwaves use to spread lies please join me in starting a truth seekers movement dedicated to:
1. Banning political ads on public airwaves.
2. Demanding that broadcasting companies air prime time debates run by independent groups such as the League of Women Voters as a prerequisite for renewal of broadcast licenses.
3. That parties attacked on talk or so called news shows on radio and TV be granted equal time to respond and that calls to such shows from people who wish to express an opposite point of view not be screened out.
4. That programs that are in effect informercials for a political party charge said party informercial rates for airtime.
Let's get back to having a government and public airwaves that serve the people instead of the highest bidders.
Sincerely,
Charles Leach
Lynchburg
To the editor:
Anyone else getting tired of the political ad lies being told by front groups for anonymous big money interests in this midterm election? Anyone else at least a little upset that the right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has made it legal for corporations and big money interests to in effect buy elections? Are at least a few people aware that some of these front groups are run by the same people who lied the country into a unnecessary war that will cost over three trillion dollars before all costs are added up and cost the lives of over 4,400 American soldiers and over 100,000 Iraqis and the same people who engineered a near total collapse of the U.S. economy?
The latest lie by one of these groups is that Governor Strickland personally hired a Texas Company, employing foreign workers, to manage appliance rebate program when the truth is that, upon being informed, he issued an executive order banning the state from using public funds to purchase offshore services and asked for the resignation of the director of the program.
Most of the ads keep spewing out some variation on the lies that Strickland is personally responsible for Ohio job losses, that the Democratic candidate for office is responsible because they supported Obama's stimulus package that the front groups claim is responsible for the job losses, that the health reform bill will cost more jobs and put small businesses under and bankrupt the country or that President Obama and Democrats who supported him have betrayed the country by passing bills that they were elected to pass by an overwhelming majority of voters. The facts are that the stimulus package save hundreds of thousands of jobs and prevented another Great Depression, that the health care bill will reduce deficits according to the non partisan congressional budget office, and that the Democrats did their best to keep campaign promises.
One of my favorite ads now running claims that John Kasich, while a congressman, personally balanced the federal budget and cut government waste. Glad that was brought to light because all this time I thought that President Clinton, by submitting balanced budgets and Vice President Gore with his Making Government Work program were responsible.
If you want to end having the best government money can buy and want to stop having the public airwaves use to spread lies please join me in starting a truth seekers movement dedicated to:
1. Banning political ads on public airwaves.
2. Demanding that broadcasting companies air prime time debates run by independent groups such as the League of Women Voters as a prerequisite for renewal of broadcast licenses.
3. That parties attacked on talk or so called news shows on radio and TV be granted equal time to respond and that calls to such shows from people who wish to express an opposite point of view not be screened out.
4. That programs that are in effect informercials for a political party charge said party informercial rates for airtime.
Let's get back to having a government and public airwaves that serve the people instead of the highest bidders.
Sincerely,
Charles Leach
Lynchburg
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