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Amendment 2

I love the community spirit and involvement of Kentuckians. However, there has to be some common sense. The electorate recently voted down Amendment 2 (School Choice). Bad idea. Let me tell you why.

Public education has gone from educating children to indoctrinating children. Public education is controlled by teachers’ unions and the federal government and although Kentucky schools may not be as bad as others across the country, they still have to submit to the NEA and will eventually come under the thumb of the national enforcement of LGBTQ+ curriculum, health education and other issues governing the gender of our children.

If a parent does not support public education it is only right that the funds those parent “citizens” pay into the system should be reimbursed to the parent so they can choose a private school or home schooling for their child.

Kentuckians want to be free to choose, and for some of us to tell others of us that we don’t have any right to use taxpayer dollars — money we pay into education — is tantamount to extortion and just another form of socialist manipulation like my family was forced to endure in Cuba.

Maximo A. Gomez, Corbin

Election outcomes

I have voted in every presidential election since I was 18 years old. I’m in my 70’s now. I won some, I lost some. But I voted.

In 2020, Joe Biden had 81 million votes to 74 million. In this election, Kamala Harris had 72.8 million to Trumps 75.8 million. Harris received 8 million votes less than Biden. Let that sink in - 8 million potential voters stayed home. Would it have made any difference in the results? With today’s electoral college who knows. But I am appalled that these voters, no doubt Democrats, thought it wasn’t necessary

Bob Sutton, Springfield

Trump questions

Open letter to President-elect Donald Trump:

1) Are you proud of yourself for your language directed at your opponent during the election cycle?

2) Do you think you would have won without the foul language?

3) How do you think the young people of America will conduct themselves if they decide to run for an elected office in the future? Will they follow your example or choose a more civil, respectful tone?

4) Maybe you won the battle, but do you think you will win the war?

5) If you met Jesus today, would you bow down to him or call him names?

Linda Penn, Richmond

Supervising Trump

America has hired a new CEO and the search committee botched the vetting process and he is a felon who will plunder the company’s assets. The board of directors is suspect, so it falls to us stockholders to supervise this mess.

Kerry Kearns, Nicholasville

Election reflection

The citizens of the Commonwealth made two good decisions in the last election cycle.

One: We killed “charter schools” being resurrected or repackaged as “school choice” forever. Senate President Robert Stivers will have to devise a new way to repurpose tax dollars.

Two: By passing Amendment One, once again the electorate has proven they are far superior in intelligence than Stivers and his minions.

Too bad the Amendment is not retroactive. A legislator from Falmouth is introducing a bill to eliminate fluoride in drinking water because President-Elect Donald Trump’s advisor Robert Kennedy has said he’d recommend eliminating it. This bill is idiotic! Kentucky has the 5th highest rate of rotten teeth in the nation. Fluoride is a preventative against tooth decay. It has been in the water system for over 60 years with no harmful effects.

If we are still have elections in the future, I expect this lunacy to be on the ballot as an Amendment in 2025.

Damian Beach, Frankfort

Edited by Liz Carey