Lynn Coleman Gardner – 9/13/13

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If you don’t have anything nice to say …; Lynn Coleman [Gardner]; Beaver County Times; September 13, 2013. Though the letter was signed “Lynn Coleman,” I’m guessing this is the same author who signed her name “Lynn Coleman Gardner,” also of White Township, to previous letters. If any readers know differently, please let me know.

Ms. Gardner has written at least 57 letters since 2005. Previous letters from Ms. Gardner I critiqued are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“I totally agree with Janet Volzer’s letter that ran Sept. 8. I, too, was glad when J.D. Prose’s column was gone. Any time that you can’t say something good or nice about a subject or a person, as my mother always taught us: Don’t say anything at all.

“If people spent more time cleaning out their own backyards, there wouldn’t be so much negativity.”

[RWC] If you are familiar with Ms. Gardner’s letter-writing body of work, you know she is a member of “the do as I say, not as I do club.” Her most recent letter was entitled “Deen not good role model,” in which Ms. Gardner “[didn’t] say something good or nice about a subject or a person.” Other Gardner letters illustrating her “negativity” include “Get with the times,” “Trump is a pinhead,” “Palin should keep family life private,” “‘Good could come out of this,’” and “The rich and the rest of us.”