Defeat Gambling Issue In Teller County Colorado

Dear Editor (Colorado Springs Gazette):


I strongly oppose the vote in Teller County to expand gambling in Cripple Creek. The limits on gambling were placed there for good reason: gambling destroys families.

For one example, just look at what happened in Woodland Park (Teller County, CO) where a long-time finance department worker embezzled $582,922 for gambling from the school district's general fund, and that happened with the current limits on gambling.

Family members told arresting officers their mother "had attempted suicide" and left a note admitting her guilt. Just imagine what affect this tragedy will have on the family unit, husband and two sons.

I urge all of my friends at the Family Forum to call all of their friends in Teller County and urge them to defeat this family ruining measure.

Dewey Lee Fletcher to be named Chief of Staff in 4th CD

Unusually reliable sources report that Louisiana Ouachita Parish public relations executive Lee Fletcher will be named Chief of Staff by newly elected Louisiana 4th District Congressman John. Sweeny. Fletcher worked for 5th CD Congressman John Cooksey for about two years until he was allegedly eased out. Before that Fletcher worked for 5th CD Congressman Jim McCrery. Fletcher ran for 5th CD Congressman against Rodney Alexander and was defeated when his votes were diluted by Religious Right candidate Jack Wright. Word is Fletcher will be the real Congressman in the Shreveport until Dr. Sweeny, like Dr. Cooksey before him, figures Fletcher out.

Mr. Jindal AWOL

Dear Editor:

To Mr. Shexnayder, Ph.D. (The NewsStar, December 5) instead of the wunderkind you defend, what you see is definitely not what we get.

Instead of doing his job in Louisiana when all the paper mills are closing, he's in Iowa campaigning for president. He arrives in his helicopter after the International Paper company announces the loss of 540 jobs in Bastrop to offer his “condolences”. He announces a "secret meeting" of his handlers with "officials" at Smurfit-Stone in Hodge after they have already closed the plant.

He goes to Philadelphia to meet the president-elect, but won't answer phone calls from the press asking how he traveled there in the face of the stink about the three car companies privately flying to D.C. for a bailout.

He goes to Florida for the republic governor’s conference and the Beacon Hill Institute’s Competitiveness Report announces that Louisiana is next to last in attracting and retaining businesses that contribute to economic growth He ran the state health department and the American Public Health Association announces Louisiana is the unhealthiest state in the United States.

Mr. Jindal was AWOL when he ran the health department, AWOL when he ran higher education, and he's AWOL now as governor.