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The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 19, 2008

Impeach Bush

Efforts to hold the Bush/Cheney Administration accountable has taken another dramatic step forward. Last week Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced the first Articles of Impeachment ever to be introduced against President Bush. It includes, in total, 35 articles detailing this administration's blatant abuse of power. Today, I enthusiastically support this vitally important bill.

I am grateful for Congressman Kucinich's leadership on this issue and for the steadfast support that countless Americans have given to these efforts to redeem our government and expose the crimes of Bush and Cheney.

We should all be expanding our efforts to secure impeachment hearings in the Judiciary Committee for these new Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush.

Many of the charges against President Bush are well known - and would shock the conscience of everyday Americans if only the national media would be willing to report on these stark facts.

The articles present a stunning narrative of offenses that have gone well beyond previous crimes committed by any U.S. chief executive. In fact, no president or vice president in history has done more to undermine our Constitution.

These charges are broad, with 35 separate allegations including the deliberate lies regarding WMDs that led us to war and the approval of illegal wiretapping of American citizens. The articles also include new allegations of high crimes - including the explicit approval of the use of torture, which is for high administration officials a violation of treaties and U.S. law banning such despicable actions.

Do you think we can get U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Wait (sic) to support this action?

Paul E. Ouellette

Spring Hill

A Great Teacher

My daughter just graduated eighth grade at Challenger K-8. She has had the good fortune to spend the past three years with a great teacher, Mrs. Plummer.

Mrs. Plummer is much more to her students than a one-subject teacher. She is a motivator, helper, tutor, counselor, friend and mentor. She teaches her students to set achievable goals, helps them work toward achieving them and then celebrates with them when they are achieved. She teaches her students to be organized in a way that works for them individually. She is always available to any student or parent and willing to help in any way. She is very easy to talk to. Mrs. Plummer loves her students and shows them a hundred ways each day.

Mrs. Plummer, my family and I thank you for being who you are - a great teacher. We truly have been blessed to have you in our lives the past few years. Have a great summer, and we will see you next school year at Nature Coast.

Jennifer Brown

Hernando Beach

Limerock Roads

A Safety Issue

I recently wrote a letter to my county commissioner requesting help regarding the condition of the roadways in Royal Highlands. I'm hoping that other residents will join me in writing letters to our county's leadership and asking for assistance with the deplorable road conditions in our neighborhood.

When I moved to the area in October 2007, I was told that limerock roads would ultimately be paved. In the meantime, I have been trying to live with the persistent layer of dust on my car, on my house and in my lungs. However, something has happened recently that has made the Royal Highlands' roads absolutely treacherous.

County trucks come regularly to even out the limerock and grade the surface of the roads. I'm assuming to correct potholes and so forth. Unfortunately, the last several times they've come, the trucks created millions of narrow divots in the road comparable to small speed bumps that start at the very beginning of each road and continue throughout. You have to travel on those roads to believe how bad they are.

Not only do these speed bumps rattle the entire car - even at speeds as low as 10 miles per hour - but they also pull the car in whatever direction they veer off. My car was pulled toward on-coming traffic several times in the last week while I was driving, even though the other driver and I were moving slowly. I don't even want to think about the damage these roads are doing to my car in terms of severe vibration and limerock collecting underneath.

Back in September 2007, commissioners asked county staff to begin work on a master plan that would address how to pave all of the county's more than 500 miles of limerock roads, and I haven't heard anything else about it. I understand that, financially speaking, times are tight in Hernando County. However, I am asking our county's leadership to seriously consider a renewed effort to have, at the very least, the major roads in Royal Highlands paved.

It is no longer just a quality of life issue, but a safety issue.

Marni A. Schribman

Brooksville

Heartbroken

I am heartbroken that some students and parents weren't allowed to be in the gym together during the graduation at Hernando High.

They were robbed of a milestone that can never be replayed. Even if it meant the ceremony being delayed, the situation should have been rectified immediately. At the very least, the parents or guardian of each and every graduate should have been given a seat in that gym.

If the students who organized the senior prank had been in charge of organizing the graduation, it might have turned out better.

Karen MacSweeney

Brooksville

Bad Planning

I am really surprised at the handling of the graduation at Hernando High School.

I recently graduated from Saint Leo University: We had the same setup with six tickets available. When the tickets were gone, it was arranged for the overage of people to go to the auditorium with a giant screen. There was also a live feed on the Internet. Some of my family watched this from New York It was planned way in advance, and you were specifically informed you could give your tickets to someone else, which meant you had time to sort out who could go or if you were not using all of the six tickets, you could give them to another student who might need them.

The graduation went on without a problem. We still were giving tickets to people who needed them the day of graduation.

Obviously, this was bad planning and somebody cannot count. Resolution next year does not help the students and parents of this year.

Lorinda Eldredge

Spring Hill

Help Yourself

Help for those in Iowa? Is this what the people of Florida have to look forward to if a hurricane hits here this year? Where in the world are all these so called nonprofit organizations in America? Why has not the federal government stepped in to help these people with this flood problem? I guess unless the feds say an area is or is not a disaster, then those we all give money to can't help with any funding.

So, to the people of Florida: Good luck this hurricane season.

I guess we will be at the mercy of getting Florida rebuilt by the feds and those nonprofit organizations that we fund seeing how many of us can afford homeowners insurance either.

Fellow taxpayers, please keep some funds back also. The speaker of the house has already said Citizens does not have the funds to pay a lot of claims, and we have already seen what this is doing to our tax structure here in Florida.

Dale Bennington

Spring Hill

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