OpinionDecember 30, 2000
SPEAK OUT
THAT FUSS in the county in Florida with the Republican ballot tampering really caught my attention because it seemed so blatantly stupid to have a Republican elected official call in only Republicans to fix only the Republican ballots. Then the rest of the story came out. ...
Rest of the story
THAT FUSS in the county in Florida with the Republican ballot tampering really caught my attention because it seemed so blatantly stupid to have a Republican elected official call in only Republicans to fix only the Republican ballots. Then the rest of the story came out. It turns out that in that county all the absentee ballot applications for Democrats were printed with their voter ID numbers on the forms, but none of the Republican applications had the numbers printed on them. The voter ID number is required to be on all applications. This major oversight was caught by an elected official who wisely called in members of the voters' party to correct the applications by adding that number to each one. No Democrats were called because no Democrats were missing that number on their applications, because the machine had printed it. No Democrat absentee ballots were thrown out, but all of the Republican absentee ballots would have been had that alert official not caught the mistake and had it corrected before the absentee ballots were mailed out to the voters. I prefer to think of this as a computer programming glitch, but I can understand that some people's opinions that this lack of a required number on only one party's applications has the smell of dirty politics, especially, when the last I heard of this situation, the alert official is not being congratulated for fixing this major problem but was being sued because she made sure that all the absentee ballots were valid.
New topic, please
DON'T YOU think it's time to leave Bush and Gore alone? Let's have something else in Speak Out besides politicians. Every day it's the same old thing. Bush this, Bush that. Why don't we call in something else besides Bush, Bush, Bush all the time?
Bars are targets
I JUST wondered if anyone else has noticed the particular pattern involving the Cape Girardeau Police Department and the bars in town. Right now the Taste is a problem, but it started with Regina's. They just pushed and pushed and pushed to try to put Regina's out of business. Then they hit the Alibi Club, then Peppy's. Now it's the Taste. The rest of you bar owners better watch out. They're gonna start after you next.
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Thanks for purse
GOD BLESS Angie, the SEMO student who lives in Greek housing. She found my purse in the Wal-Mart parking lot and returned it to me. It's so great especially at this time of year to know there are still moral, decent people in the world.
Preferential treatment
IT'S OBVIOUS that our city council here in Cape Girardeau has no backbone at all. If the owner of the Taste Lounge were a white person, it would already be closed. I think the council is afraid of making the black people in this community angry. Instead of treating them fairly they treat them preferentially, and I'm sick of it. That area takes up most of the police time on weekends.
Patience, restraint
I'D LIKE to commend the city for its patience and restraint in cleaning the side streets in Cape Girardeau. It showed a lot of restraint to stay off of those streets and let us all watch them clear up together. I am sure the city would be able to replace the seats of the pants they wore out with money they saved by cleaning the streets. They absolutely missed the boat whenever it was melting. They could have had them all cleaned up if there had been any trucks running.
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