“Hey, make sure you don’t miss the best new comedy series on TV this fall: the Republican debates.”
— Hagerstown
“Congratulations, Hagerstown and Washington County. You criticize our few unions. This area is mostly nonunion. You should be proud that half of Washington County students are below poverty level.”
— Keedysville
“I’d like to thank the two ladies who found my wallet at the Davis Funeral Home in Smithsburg, Md. ... I appreciate that, and may the good Lord always look over you two angels. I tell you, I’m sure glad and happy. God bless both of you.”
— Falling Waters, W.Va.
“The caller’s right. The (Occupy) Wall Street aren’t bums. When they have riots and sex and rapes and crime, they’re not bums, they’re criminals. Half should be in jail, the other half should be in the zoo. How can you possibly compare them to the patriotic, well-behaved tea party, who’s trying to do good, against the other ones who are just trying to do evil? ‘Bums’ isn’t bad enough.”
— Hagerstown
“It is getting close to the middle of the month, and I have not read one thing in the paper regarding November being Native American Month. I certainly hope someone recognizes the Native Americans’ contributions to this country.”
— Hagerstown
“I see where in this morning’s paper about closing downtown businesses. That’s all over, that’s been going on for years. Taxes are going up and people are moving out, and the tax structure’s getting smaller, so they have to keep raising it on the taxpayer, to cover the money that people’s moving out of the city of Hagerstown. And the county is spending more money ... they got all these projects they’re spending on, and everybody’s leaving Hagerstown. The population is lower than it’s probably been since 1960.”
— Hagerstown
“Wednesday’s paper, Nov. 9, Fannie Mae’s losses continue to widen. They want the government to give them $7.8 billion. We don’t have money for that kind of stuff. Close it down, is all I can tell you. And in reference to the 67-year-old lady who wants books, tell her to buy a Kindle book. She can get anything she wants on that. She can sit at home and read that.”
— Hancock
“I am for raising revenue for the state, and I think the best way to do that is to tax all abortions that are held at the Hagerstown reproductive clinic. I think we need a $100 tax on every abortion, and I think it’s time to start taxing holiday trees — not Christmas trees; Christmas trees we don’t want to tax, but holiday trees need a 50 percent sales tax.”
— Smithsburg
“I am reading where a group wants the city to have the daytime shelter for the homeless. I say let the nonprofits have the shelter. I have never felt it showed much compassion to put them on the streets at 7 a.m. until evening, when they have no job or no place to go.”
— Hagerstown
“I urge everyone who lives in the 6th District of Maryland to find out how your delegate and state senator voted on this redistricting plan, that would carve up the 6th District and break it into three or four congressional districts, assuring the Democrats of complete control in Maryland. Find out how your representatives in Annapolis voted on this.”
— Hagerstown
“You know, I was watching Anderson Cooper tonight, and he was talking — he’s probably right, and he’s a Democrat, right, I think — but he said the tea party are people who are really concerned, and they work, and they care about America, where the people who’s occupying Wall Street are probably Democrats who don’t work.”
— Williamsport
“I just want to say thank you to the wonderful teachers and the students at Salem Avenue Elementary. They put on a Veterans Day program that was fantastic. Their voices were wonderful, their poems were to the heart, and I just want to thank the staff there for supporting the veterans and supporting the children.”
— Hagerstown
“Wake up, please, Washington County and Hagerstown. Anybody getting high-tech degrees are working either out-of-state or out of the county. Another thing, you want to revitalize Hagerstown? Then don’t let all these businesses leave. You’ve lost the piano shop, two highly reputable clothing shops. Why are these people leaving? You better look at yourselves, county government and city government. West Virginia got most of the high-tech jobs close by, thanks to Sen. Byrd. Their politicians work for them.”
— Hagerstown
“Regarding the physicals for the fire and rescue, they shouldn’t be worried about the physicals for the upcoming years. The association should be worried about the members of the fire and rescue companies who don’t have their physicals and are riding or holding an office with their company. Those members as of today are riding or going by vehicle to calls or still holding office with their company and haven’t got their physicals, which should have been done by Oct. 1, 2011. So they need to get their ducks in a row. And someone should be checking into this and making those members compliant, and they shouldn’t be eligible to run or hold office until physicals are done.”
— Hagerstown
