Timing is everything
Letter to the Lake Charles American Press
Dear editor:
The recent defeat at the polls of the proposed parish wide sales tax and bond issue is the combination of well meaning ideas by Calcasieu/Lake Charles leadership and poor timing. Evidently this leadership brought forth their plans without realizing what is presently on the minds of the populace and doomed their needed projects as a result.
It is a shame that the mayor and police jury did not see or consider: 1) After the personal, costly cleanup from Hurricane Rita people are not in the mood for additional spending; 2) With gas prices and utility costs going through the roof everyone is trying to stretch their income to cover basic needs; 3) Polls have shown that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the continuing loss of American lives are of primary concern; 4) The fear of a spread of the Middle East war between the illegal, terrorist Hizbullah and the State of Israel is on everyone’s minds, and; 5) The beginning of a new hurricane season is upon us.
Even though the needs of the sheriff’s office are real, and Mayor Randy Roach’s plans for a revitalization of downtown Lake Charles might be beneficial to the city, they have failed to realize the pulse of the parish’s citizens. In fact, their timing, to say the least, has a bad odor about it.
Dear editor:
The recent defeat at the polls of the proposed parish wide sales tax and bond issue is the combination of well meaning ideas by Calcasieu/Lake Charles leadership and poor timing. Evidently this leadership brought forth their plans without realizing what is presently on the minds of the populace and doomed their needed projects as a result.
It is a shame that the mayor and police jury did not see or consider: 1) After the personal, costly cleanup from Hurricane Rita people are not in the mood for additional spending; 2) With gas prices and utility costs going through the roof everyone is trying to stretch their income to cover basic needs; 3) Polls have shown that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the continuing loss of American lives are of primary concern; 4) The fear of a spread of the Middle East war between the illegal, terrorist Hizbullah and the State of Israel is on everyone’s minds, and; 5) The beginning of a new hurricane season is upon us.
Even though the needs of the sheriff’s office are real, and Mayor Randy Roach’s plans for a revitalization of downtown Lake Charles might be beneficial to the city, they have failed to realize the pulse of the parish’s citizens. In fact, their timing, to say the least, has a bad odor about it.
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