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Thursday, November 5
Yeah, I think it is incredibly sickening and disheartening as some folks in the Milton City Council apparently want to shut down dissension on what apparently appears as a popular vote. The discussions going on about having a spokesperson, the only person who can speak to the media, is about as anti-democratic as it gets.
Saturday, November 7
This is Mary, a concerned senior citizen. I was reading about where they have a sign in the schools that said you don’t have to salute the flag, the American flag, that you are not necessarily are not American. What’s the matter? Does the parents know about this? Who let this come to pass? If they are not American, then they should not be in America and if they don’t want to live here and all of our freedoms, which was blood bought by men and women in the wars, and enjoy all of them, then why are they there. Why are they here? And saluting the flag is giving respect to the flag and to the ones who died for it. Thank you.
Saturday, November 7
Yeah, this is Bobby. Reading in the paper where people are arguing over the Fisher Hamilton building. It sounds to me like the same old stuff. If you want to tear it down and four lane it through downtown Milton, that is not original enough. But there is probably not a building around that has been there for over a 100 years that hasn’t had something changed. And if you use that theory, then that brick road in East Milton it has changed too. It has concrete along each side of it. I guess they should tear that thing up because, there is nothing historical about it. Just thinking, Thank you.
Sunday, November 8
This is George and I belong to a few veteran organizations and the VA. I am amazed and educated by the conversations I hear about VA, congress and the senate. When I applied for disability help from the VA almost four years ago and received no positive satisfaction. They all told me to notify my senator or congressman. Well me being an republican and the senate being a democrat, I was not going to contact him, so I chose our republican congressman. Who I knew would help. Well for three years, I wrote one letter to his motion in office and carried six letters to his Pensacola office. I have yet to hear one word from him. I have had one call from his office three and half years ago. So maybe I am mistaken that we don’t have congress in Northwest Florida anymore. Two years ago, I contacted our democratic senator with doubt I would ever hear back from him. In less than two weeks., I received a personal phone call from Senator Nelson himself saying in so many words saying help is on the way. I have received no less than a dozen phone calls and letters from his office and got the help I need. At that time within three months I hand carried one more letter to that congressman’s office in Pensacola telling him of my experience with Senator Nelson and have still yet after nine months of this letter had not heard of one word. Our congressman has wrote many worthless words and promises in our local paper during election time and would be expected of a congressman of this time. This man wants to run for Senate. We say no way, he has done nothing in Congress and he would do the same in the Senate. Thank you, bye.
Sunday, November 8
Hey, this Tommy in East Milton. Really, Is this the best we can do. We keep working backwards and keep talking about property that nobody in this town and nobody in this county would build their own house on, but the people who are running the county and the people who are running the town of Milton say this is great place to spend the public’s money on property that is underwater when it floods. This is crazy. And that big story in the paper about the Fisher Hamilton building. What are we talking about? That building has had more face lifts than Joan Rivers. Come on. Wake up, Milton. Get rid of these guys, they are looking in the rear view mirror and they are wasting your money. Thank you.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Speak Out November 11