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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Sunday, February 28, 2016

Dear Rita & JoAnne


(My email sent to a pair of Dispatch reporters.)
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To:  Rita Price, rprice@dispatch.com, and JoAnne Viviano, jviviano@dispatch.com
cc:  Alan Miller, amiller@dispatch.com

Dear Rita & JoAnne -- 

Your article in today's Dispatch about the conservatives' slimy Planned Parenthood Punishment Bill, HB 294, which was recently signed into law by John Kasich, is an excellent and informative piece of writing.  It raises important points and sheds light on the way Ohio's rigged, gerrymandered legislature operates and how they can so blithely ignore the majority of our citizens.

My only question is:  Where was this article several weeks or months ago, when it might have opened more eyes and made a difference, when it could have spurred more Ohioans to voice their opinions to their legislators?

Why wait until after we've been bamboozled to tell the story?  (A cynic would call it editorial policy.)

It's a well-done piece that will go to waste by being much too late.

Sincerely, 
Buster Gammons

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/02/28/politics-health-care-are-clashing.html

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