Letters to the Editor Sunday - Savannah Morning News

First of all, stop the farce of calling supporters of City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney to meetings to defend her because she is the first African-American woman to hold the city manager?s position.

In the real world and private sector, Ms. Small-Toney would have been fired a long time ago.

If you are not able to understand the rules and regulations of filing for travel expenses, report and balance these correctly, I doubt that the budgeting part for a task like the city budget of Savannah is in good hands.

The mayor made the one and only possible move and the city council, especially Aldermen John Hall, Estella Shabazz and Mary Osborne need to understand that they will have to face their districts for the mistakes Small-Toney made in her 18 months.

It seems clear to me that there is more to come, and the city tries to be upfront for one time instead of finding out that they need to deal with another major embarrassment later.

What everybody has to understand is that a city manager who misallocated and misspends the city?s money is wasting all the taxpayers? money that could be used in a prudent, beneficial way when budgeting and planning go hand in hand.

CORNELIA STUMPF

Savannah

Southern Baptists wrong about Mormon faith

In his letter to the editor (Sept. 27), Cecil Tuten is absolutely correct in saying that ?being Mormon shouldn?t disqualify Romney.?

He is in error in saying or implying that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (originally named Church of Christ) is Christian.

Pure and simple, this religious body is another world religion alongside Jewish, Christian and other world religions. Two great scholars of the LDS point this out. I refer to Jan Shipps and Kathleen Flake.

Let me be clear, this is a compliment and not a criticism or negative observation. Southern Baptists have always referred to LDS as a cult. This is a complete error.

LDS is world-wide and has added three inspired-by-God (from their standpoint) writings including the Book of Mormon to the New and Old Testaments. This alone qualifies LDS as another world religion.

Tuten owes it to himself to read the Book of Mormon, as I have, and then make his own judgment. Again, this letter is intended as a compliment and in no way a criticism. Academicians in the classroom would agree with this observation and also with Tuten?s main intent.

Dr. GEORGE SHRIVER

Statesboro

Why Jimmy Carter is happiest man in U.S.

I?ve been reading the editorials and reader comments of late and have held my tongue as long as I can. So here goes:

Regarding the women who don?t want to change their names when they get married, they obviously know they?re not going to be married very long anyway.

Regarding the Amtrak station in Savannah, why did they build a filthy place that looks like you?re in New York City when we had a beautiful, historic train station full of Civil War history right downtown? Why couldn?t they restore that station like the old buildings?

And please tell Rear Admiral Willie Metts, who wrote the Sept. 20 guest column about the new ?green Navy,? that the biodiesel fuel the ships use cost $27 a gallon vs. the current $5 a gallon.

And last, but not least, the Romney vs. Obama thing: The happiest man in the USA is Jimmy Carter.

Until now, he was down in history as the worst president who did the most damage to the U.S. economy. Now Obama makes him look great.

LANCE NOVAK

Savannah

Romney?s tax comments show callous disregard

A current appeal among some folks is that ?every citizen will take the time and be open-minded enough? to see a movie based upon one film maker?s subjective opinion that President Obama?s whole life has been dedicated to a walk on the path to the dark side, the abandonment of our history, and to turn America into a socialist/communist country.

Likewise, in the spirit of fair play, I now ask that we keep our mind open to something the other candidate has said in person and caught on tape.

Mitt Romney?s surprisingly candid remarks spoken to other like-minded folks, whereby he said that ?47 percent of all Americans don?t pay taxes, are dependent upon government, believe that they are victims, believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, and believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, and to you-name-it... my job is not to worry about those people. I?ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.?

Now I ask you this, who should we believe?

Mitt Romney?s words express total disdain and callous disregard for about half the folks who make up this country.

KEN BARTHELS

Savannah

We have met the enemy, and it?s the media

The worst enemies of the United States are the news media, which play politics with their reporting.

George Soros ruined the economies of four countries and wants to do it to ours. President Obama, Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi who want to impose ?social justice? through their policies.

Marx?s idea of social justice has never worked and never will.

Our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and the belief in individual freedom and responsibility. People came to our country wanting to be free and to benefit from our capitalistic system.

EDITH LANIER

Savannah

Let?s rename Bay Street to honor Tomochichi

As a 72-year-old native Savannahian and amateur historian, I need to get some things off my mind.

East Broad Street should be renamed for the late Dr. Richard Arnold, who served as mayor of Savannah during the Civil War. He led a delegation of Savannah leaders to the outskirts of Savannah to turn over the city to General William T. Sherman, thereby saving our beautiful historic city from destruction like Atlanta.

Let?s change Bay Street to Tomochichi Bay Drive. He befriended Georgia founder Gen. James Oglethorpe and the colonists. This should be done because later Savannah leaders desecrated his burial site in the center of Wright Square.

They erected a monument over his grave to the memory of William Washington Gordon, an influential citizen who developed the railroad system, etc. The Juliette Gordon Low family later arranged for a granite monument to be placed in the southeast corner of the square.

I wish City Council and the Georgia Historical Society would pursue this and endorse it.

JACK W. WILSON

Savannah

Source: http://savannahnow.com/opinion/2012-09-30/letters-editor-sunday

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