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January
13, 2012
Response
to
Brunswick
News
Editorial
of
January
12, 2012
by:
Audrey
Stewart
January
13, 2012
To:
The
Brunswick
News -
Letter
to the
Editor
column
Regarding
you
editorial
on
1/12/12
I am so
disappointed
that the
editorial
board
has
missed
the
point so
completely
and has
landed
on
Venus
Holmes
as the
only
person
interested
in
diversity
and that
you
assume
her
motives
are
political.
Cultural
diversity
has come
up every
year and
it is an
issue
that
will
never go
away.
Having a
teacher
or
administrator
of
another
culture
or color
provides
richness
to life.
This
will not
benefit
only
District
5 or
only
those in
poverty,
this is
a
richness
for the
whole
community
and
every
student
in the
school
system.
Diversity
is
something
we all
have to
work
toward
and it
begins
with
whom we
interview
in the
hiring
process.
If an
individual
on the
Board of
Education
cannot
raise
the
issue as
a matter
of
policy,
who can
or will?
I am
especially
shocked
that the
editorial
would
single
out the
sole
African
American
woman on
the
Board of
Education
and
instruct
her to
stay in
her
place!
Members
may be
elected
to the
board by
their
county
district
but once
on the
board
they are
a part
of the
body as
a whole
and
represent
the
needs of
all the
children
in every
part of
the
county.
Audrey
Stewart
October
26, 2011
Open
Letter
from
Glynn
County
Democratic
Party
Chair,
Audrey
Stewart
On
SPLOST 6
The
Glynn
County
Democratic
Party
Executive
Committee
has
voted to
give
qualified
support
to
Special
Purpose
Local
Option
Sales
Tax VI.
SPLOST 6
is a
continuation
of the
current
7% sales
tax and
will not
impose
an
additional
tax
burden
on
county
residents.
We
qualify
our
support
of
SPLOST 6
because
of the
regressive
nature
of a
sales
tax.
Reliance
on
regressive
sales
taxes
are
harmful
to those
with
limited
resources
and
shifts
the tax
burden
disproportionately
to those
with
lower
ability
to pay.
The
Glynn
County
Democratic
Party
Executive
Committee
acted in
solidarity
to
support
our
elected
county
commission
leaders’
decision
and
government
officials’
request
to
invest
in
public
safety
equipment,
infrastructure
improvements
and
public
facility
projects.
The
SPLOST 6
investment
project
list
will
continue
to make
Glynn
County
the
premier
place to
live and
work in
the
southeastern
United
States.
We
recognize
that
tourism
is the
primary
industry
in Glynn
County
and
SPLOST
projects
that add
to the
enhancement
of our
public
facilities
not only
improve
the
quality
of life
of our
residents
but
supports
an
economy
that
provides
jobs, in
addition
to a tax
revenue
stream
that is
partially
paid by
the
visitors
from
outside
our
county.
The
Glynn
County
Democratic
Party
Executive
Committee
supports
continual
growth
and
progress
in Glynn
County
that
will
lead to
the
success
of our
community
as a
whole
and
therefore
gives
its
qualified
support
for
SPLOST 6.
Audrey
Stewart,
Chair
Glynn
County
Democratic
Party
P.O. Box
776,
Brunswick,
GA 31521
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After
reading The Brunswick News article
Why Democrats are on the ropes all
through the South
(The Brunswick News, November 6-7, 2010),
my heart went out to the many former Democratic voters
turned Republican. Reading the article must have left
them appalled, angry, and sick to their stomach to learn
that, for years now, they have been used as nothing more
than political pawns.
To have
shoved in their faces a front page story admitting that,
since the Nixon era, Republican have had a strategy to
retake the (Southern) region by appealing to White anger
over desegregation and, later, White fear about social
and welfare issues must have been downright
humiliating. Adding Mr. Hutcheson’s final fear factor
of the strategy; the moral issues (Guns, homosexuality
and abortion); “…those morals [that] are keeping us from
reaping God’s benefits and God’s blessings,” could only
have added insult to injury.
The
Democratic Party is the party of the people. It has
always been and shall continue to be. It will continue
its commitment to protect and preserve the rights of the
people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; to
recognize and embrace our heritage of separation of
church and state, and the values which are part of our
Judeo-Christian heritage – social justice, protecting
the creation which has been entrusted to us, and caring
for the poor and needy. And, it will never prey on the
anger and fears of people simply to advance an agenda
for power, regardless of how “on the ropes” it may
appear to be.
Vincent
Joubert, Jr.-Davis
Chair
Glynn
County Democratic Party
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