Letters to the editor Oct. 21

School bond opponent stands by opinion

Yes, I am against the school bond question. However, let me disabuse the misconception that because I am against this specific school bond that somehow I am against public education or that I hate children.

Nothing could be further from the truth, and nobody who knows me would believe such bilious organized propaganda.

It is my sincere belief that there has been a complete and total disintegration of leadership qualities by members of the Carson City School Board and the administration of the school district.

This school bond question was not properly presented before the citizens of Carson City. My friends and neighbors never received anything in the mail that provided information as to why we should vote for this bond. If not given enough time, and information, the citizen has no way of making an informed choice and in effect the voters have now been offered a fait accompli.

While certain members of the master plan committee were out talking to business and civic organizations, their outreach to the ordinary citizen of Carson City was abysmal, dismal and pathetic.

I would never be so pretentious as to advise my fellow citizens on how to vote on this issue. However, I stand in firm opposition to this school bond because the people who have promoted this bond have failed to recognize their masters. After working on three school bonds, this one has been handled incorrectly. Therefore, I must dissent.

Karl Neathammer

Carson City

Why do so many support Furlong's opponent?

As a concerned citizen of Carson City, I have a couple of questions for my fellow citizens. If our current sheriff is such a good leader, why have two of his employees run against him?

Second question: If our current sheriff is such a good leader, why have most of the deputy associations in our area and his own administration association chosen to support Guimont? Just to list a few: Carson City Deputy Sheriff's Protective Association, Carson City Sheriff's Supervisor Association, Peace Officer Research Association of Nevada, Washoe County Deputy Sheriff's Association, Nevada State Law Enforcement Officers Association ... there are many more endorsements.

This is of great concern to me. What is going on that is making his staff and deputies so unhappy with him? This tells me that maybe he isn't as good as we might think.

Diana Rollins

Carson City

Angle shows her merit as true fiscal conservative

During eight years in the Nevada Assembly, Sharron Angle consistently voted against tax increases and expansion of state government, was instrumental in halting the runaway property tax increases during Gov. Guinn's administration, and fought to abide by the Nevada Constitution. If elected our U.S. senator, she has pledged to repeal and replace perhaps the worst piece of Marxist legislation in our country's history, Obamacare; cut federal spending; eliminate unnecessary departments, agencies and regulations; reduce the deficit; oppose any tax and fee increases and support tax credits and incentives for business to encourage job creation; enforce our immigration laws; oppose amnesty for illegal aliens and secure our borders.

She also voted "no" on cap and trade which could double our utility bills and cause the loss of 1.5 to 2 million jobs and support utilization of our abundant natural resources and alternative energy. She lead the charge to repay the $2.5 trillion Congress has raided from the Social Security fund since the mid-1960s, and work toward personal 401(k)-type low-risk accounts for future generations which will more than double retirement benefits and be individually owned, inheritable assets, not government property.

With Harry Reid, we'll get more of the same tax-and-spend progressive policies, continued high unemployment, more useless bailouts, runaway deficits, and economic chaos. That's why Reid's endorsement by tax-and-spend, establishment Republicans doesn't phase us "tea party" folks.

Janis Brand

Round Hill

Downtown project will create construction mess

The construction mess on Roop will be nothing compared to the construction mess of the huge City Center Project.

This is a technology development which will require the tearing up of all downtown to lay the necessary cable to run the center. Once this happens, they will want to replace everything else - gas, water, sewer and electricity lines.

Do you really want to live with five years of this construction mess downtown? I don't.

Lois Barnes

Carson City