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The real reasons for Republican success

Editor:

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The Gazette, in an editorial, lamented the fact that Republicans might make gains in November and take control of Congress. The editorial speculated that Republican gains would be the result of vote buying and insinuated racism might play a role via the tea party movement. Such reasoning is hogwash.

The Gazette refuses to acknowledge the real reasons for Republican success. America is fed up with a party that continues to blindly follow liberal leaders such as Obama, Pelosi and Reid. Voters are sick of Obama, who said if you don't pass my stimulus bill, unemployment will skyrocket to 8 percent. The Democratic Congress passed his expensive bill and unemployment now stands at nearly 10 percent. Voters are sick of Democrats who cut unseemly deals with unions and Democratic politicians, to get budget-busting trillion-dollar socialist health care through Congress. Voters are sick of a president who bestows American rights to foreign terrorists and turns a blind eye to Mexicans entering America illegally. And West Virginians are totally disgusted with Obama's war on coal.

As for vote buying, it will be precipitated by the wealthy George Soros Hollywood crowd, Chicago style.

Larry Medley

Charleston

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Reasons to veto mountaintop removal

Editor:

The Spruce Number 1 Mountaintop Removal and all other mountaintop removal permits must be vetoed for better alternatives. Three urgent reasons:

1. Destruction of mountain populations. Mountaintop removal is largely responsible, for example, for Logan County's population decrease of 54.1 percent from 1950 and McDowell County's population loss of 77 percent. (Latest U.S. Census reports.)

2. Destruction of land values. Three parcels of Pocahontas Land Corp. in three counties totaling 61,358.92 acres, for example, were decreased in appraisal $6.1 million between 2000 and 2006. From managed timberland to woodland, according to state Tax Department data.

3. Better alternatives. Mountaintop removal employees could be provided reclamation jobs at perhaps a 20 percent increase in salary from unused stimulus funds and state taxpayer dollars being hidden from the general public.

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James C. Rymer

St. Marys

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