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Vote if you want to make difference; Lonzie Cox, Jr.; Beaver County Times; October 17, 2010. I am not related to Mr. Cox.
Most of Mr. Cox’s at least 60 letters since 2004 are tinged with race, and all take leftist positions.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“The huge One Nation rally in Washington, D.C., reminded me of the late Democratic County Commissioner Jimmy Alberts.”
[RWC] Mr. Cox failed to note organizations like Communist Party USA were official sponsors of this rally. You can find more about this in my critique of a Beaver County Reds article.
“In 1988, George Bush Sr. was leading Michael Dukakis on the ultra-racist Willie Horton ads. With Dukakis present and speaking at a Rochester church hall, Jimmy Alberts addressed the rumored Democratic voters’ lack of interest and enthusiasm for the coming election. Alberts stressed the importance of that election to Beaver County’s future as Reagan and Bush policies were closing steel plants and other manufacturing industries all over the region.”
[RWC] Actually, Al Gore initially brought up this issue during the Democrat primary, though he apparently didn’t mention Mr. Horton by name. In case you don’t remember, Willie Horton was a convicted murderer serving a life sentence in a Massachusetts prison without possibility of parole. Incredibly, Mr. Horton was released on weekend furlough and did not return (surprise, surprise). About 10 months later, Mr. Horton raped a Maryland woman twice and beat and knifed her fiancé. Mr. Dukakis was Massachusetts governor at the time and supported (but did not initiate) the furlough program. That said, Mr. Dukakis vetoed a bill that would have excluded first-degree murderers from the furlough program. The reason this topic came up was Mr. Dukakis was trying to run on his experience in the justice system and he mentioned the furlough program as a positive.
As for the steel industry comment, this is at least the sixth time since 2004 Mr. Cox made this claim. As I’ve written before, blaming President Reagan for steel’s collapse is like blaming an emergency room doctor for the death of a DOA patient. What is it with lefties and history? Mr. Cox wants us to believe the steel industry was strong and vibrant until the day Ronald Reagan took office and he somehow managed to kill it within a few years. It’s the same as the revisionist history trying to convince us terrorism against the U.S. didn’t exist until President George W. Bush took office. Earth to Mr. Cox. The U.S. steel industry had been displaying serious problems since at least the mid-1950s. Mr. Cox never tells us what Reagan and Bush policies allegedly caused steel’s collapse.
“Alberts then went on to explain how the Republicans had repeatedly taken the country into recession and depression in his generation (1929) through tax cuts for the rich and unemployment and poverty for workers.”
[RWC] More revisionist history. Please read this critique of a previous Lonzie Cox letter for details.
“Same story as in 2010. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill once said ‘If Americans want to live like the Republicans, they had better V-O-T-E like the Democrats.’”
[RWC] Though I found this saying via a Google search, I didn’t find any hits crediting Mr. O’Neill.
“I admired Jimmy Alberts for his direct approach - encouraging Democrats to vote heavily in each election. He emphasized that we had a big advantage in registered Democrats if we all voted. Therefore, he thought that we should be represented by real Democrats in the Congress, state Senate and state House of Representatives and that Republicans (today’s Tea baggers) should control nothing.”
[RWC] Gee, what an odd position for a Democrat politician to take. <g> It’s not a Lonzie Cox letter without name-calling.
“On Nov. 2, let’s take our county back. VOTE.”
[RWC] This is a hoot. In his last letter, Mr. Cox complained about righties using the “take our country back” slogan. I guess it’s OK for lefties but not for righties.
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