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The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 19, 2008

Rep. Brown-Waite Answers The Call
Gus and I have daily questions we have to spend multitudinous amounts of time researching in the yellow pages, then drive through road rage traffic in those congested resource locations to get our answers; wasting precious, personal time.
Gus does not have the energy to wait for return calls after leaving a message to an automated answering machine for a doctor, lawyer, pharmacist, librarian, etc.
Gus found an immediate remedy: Our Congresswoman, Ginny Brown-Waite, was his ticket to worldwide accessible knowledge.

Ginny's administrative assistants answered their phones without passing Gus into automation. Ginny's plentiful staff are walking encyclopedias equipped with computer literacy and high tech computers at their fingertips, who have memorized every conceivable Web site to do instantaneous research for Gus over the phone without further delays.

This professional courtesy is for all callers, not just ballot casters, Monday through Friday, for everyone's convenience. Gus stored Ginny's number in his cell phone for questions he wanted answers to yesterday: 799-8354; fax: 352-799-8776. Ginny can be met online: www.house.gov/brown-waite. Ginny is standing by awaiting your call too.

Drop in Ginny's office at the courthouse; show your gratitude for her service to our veterans. Show Ginny you care for her, as Ginny has shown an enormous amount of compassionate intimacy for you, by providing generous availability and free access to her knowledgeable staff. Ginny represents our veterans by displaying dignity and respect our veterans are deserving of. That is why Gus chose Ginny. Join Gus and I in obtaining the very best customer service at its peak by continuing to keep Ginny Brown-Waite in office.

Gus and Cy Hollister

Brooksville

Dressed For Success

I noted with startling and astounding appreciation in the Feb. 10 edition of Hernando Today the photo of Tyler Maier fully dressed in a long-sleeve shirt to the neck, long running trousers, gloves and running shoes easily separating him from the pack in the running of the 29th annual Red Mule Flatlanders Challenge, not only for his victory but also for his race appearance. His dress caused Tyler to appear as a universal world athlete rather than a colloquial runner in small town America.

I'm old-fashioned, maybe because I was born in a Cincinnati orphanage; there to reside happily for the 10 years I stood bravely to serve at the altar, to work in the kitchen pulling trays of dishes and to walk with the heavily clothed nuns in their daily routines maintaining the buildings, making beds and keeping the grounds picture-perfect.

In Ohio, it was typical to move from the orphanage to the farms, as I did in the 1940s before the advent of electricity, working horses and horse-drawn equipment, milking cows, picking fruit in the orchard and tilling the rows and rows of garden with a horse called Bill, who stepped gingerly to avoid injuring plants. I was dressed in long-sleeve shirt buttoned at the neck, tight against my throat; and I wore long trousers and heavy shoes, this because work was in hay, against corn stalks, and it was important to avoid daylong exposure to the sun to protect skin surface.

I still dress in long-sleeve shirts buttoned at the throat, long trousers and leather shoes made in America. I avoid showing skin concerned by observing fattened arms, legs injured by age, knobby knees and feet festooned by Chinese shoes, along with the golf shirt and starched shorts; all that sends shivers into my psyche.

Tyler's stand-out victory and appearance cause him to be an excellent role model for young people whose appearances give cause to speculate about what happened to sartorial splendor as each generation attempts to define its age group by appearances sometimes shocking, sometimes without imagination, mostly in the exposition of large spans of skin that might be better off shielded in the sake of propriety.

Deron Mikal

Brooksville

Adopt A Friend

And Limit Loneliness

I see so many people alone at our local restaurants and other public places. Loneliness is such a terrible thing. Sitting in the darkness of their lives, alone and fighting sorrow.

Why do they continue this fight alone while thousands of pets (both dogs and cats) are euthanized each year?

For just pennies a day you can adopt a friend and companion to chase those blues away.

Pets don't judge you or argue with you, they just accept you the way you are.

Visit your local animal shelter today and get joy back in your life.

Bruce K. Smiley

Spring Hill

McCain Threatens GOP

In regards to Mr. John Herbert's column in which he says that conservatives would rather destroy the Republican Party than support John McCain: I would say to him just the opposite, it is Republicans like John McCain who threaten the party.

Let's face it, for nearly eight years the Republican Party has abandoned its base for what is commonly referred to as RINOs: Republicans in names only. These are as I like to call them: The blue-bloodied country club Northeastern elitists, who may be strong on defense issues, but are liberal on many social issues - Republicans like John McCain for example.

The Republican Party bosses forgot who put them in power back in 1994. It was not the moderates, it was the conservatives and in 2006 they rightfuly lost control of Congress because they lost their way and followed a moderate path.

Perhaps it will take another big loss for the Republican Party to wake up and get back in touch with its base. It happened back in 1980, and it can happen again.

Peter Stathis

Spring Hill

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