Opinion
Letters to the editor, Nov. 7
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Published: November 7, 2012
Sad but truePublished: November 7, 2012
I loved the "Don Brown's Notebook" editorial cartoon in your Oct. 31 editions. The trick-or-treaters getting ketchup packets at a house with a "Foreclosure Sale" sign in the front yard really hit home as a sign of the times. Although I chuckled, it is altogether true and sad.
Avocadoes and bananas grow wild in Florida. I was thinking of picking some to give out on Halloween.
Frances DiPietro
Hudson
No dollar sense
Regarding, "Citizens Poses Big Risk for Floridians," the op-ed page column by Lloyd Brown of Florida Voices in your Oct. 31 editions, this is a representation and an example of misleading information made for public consumption. Why do I say that? Easy, Brown wrote, "Citizens, however, takes in about $3 billion in premiums yearly and faces the possibility of $500 billion in claims from a big storm."
That isn't true because Hurricane Sandy, which hit the largest population area on the East Coast, is estimated to have damage of more than $20 billion dollars and Hurricane Katrina, the most devastating storm to hit the U.S. in recent times, cost approximately $46 billion. So hardly does $500 billion seem a realistic estimate for one big storm.
This is the type of scare tactic used by some to try to totally inflate insurance premiums for the state of Florida. We must reject these voices of gloom and doom and use common sense in insuring Florida property. Listen to the ideas of state legislator Mike Fasano concerning our insurance woes. He makes sense.
Larry W. Stith
Hudson
Still unresolved
The Pasco County School Board owes residents an explanation of why it chose a paid attorney from the school district to conduct an investigation into how representatives from the Obama campaign were able to go into schools and speak to students, but representatives of the Republican and Libertarian parties were later not allowed on school property.
The investigation should have been chosen from outside the system, and taxpayers should be outraged by the cover-up that has taken place in the schools.
Bill Bunting
Hudson
The writer is the Pasco Republican state committeeman.