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2:06 PM Friday, April 23, 2010

Mr. Boehner: How many Ohioans lost unemployment benefits today because of you? How many Ohioans lost COBRA benefits today because of you? How many of their children went to bed this evening hungry because of you?

I’m sure you can’t answer that question. The people I’m speaking of particularly in Butler County aren’t, after all, your constituency. They are not insurance company or pharmaceutical company execs. These people don’t work for Koch Industries.

Though they have voted for you in the past, they are beginning to understand your contempt for them. They know your mantra — “Keep ’em scared and they will vote for you.”

Well, Mr. Boehner, you are becoming the paper tiger, the emperor with no clothes; they see your tan lines and they are not scared. You see, (recently) someone wrote to the Hamilton JournalNews an editorial comment that is now our mantra: “How soon can I not vote for Boehner?”

You can only lie to people so long before they come to understand who and what you are. I call you “Mr. Boehner” to be polite. I refuse to call you “representative,” as you ceased being that years ago.

Bill Stevens

Hamilton

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