Congressmen who profit from tobacco companies should pay
Letter to the Editor
Issue date: 4/30/08 Section: Opinion
It was just reported that Alabama's U.S. congressmen Terry Everett and Bud Cramer will retire with more than $2.4 million in leftover campaign contributions.
A quick Internet search shows these two congressmen have taken a reported $43,500 from the death traders of big and brutal tobacco. Wouldn't it send a wonderful and unprecedented message to the world if Everett and Cramer would locate a child left fatherless by tobacco and donate $43,500 to his or her college education?
With tobacco painfully slaying 7,400 Alabamians every year, I don't think it would be too difficult to locate a deserving child. Do you?
Mike Sawyer,
Executive director, I Will Never Use Tobacco, Inc.
A quick Internet search shows these two congressmen have taken a reported $43,500 from the death traders of big and brutal tobacco. Wouldn't it send a wonderful and unprecedented message to the world if Everett and Cramer would locate a child left fatherless by tobacco and donate $43,500 to his or her college education?
With tobacco painfully slaying 7,400 Alabamians every year, I don't think it would be too difficult to locate a deserving child. Do you?
Mike Sawyer,
Executive director, I Will Never Use Tobacco, Inc.
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Bret
posted 4/30/08 @ 2:58 PM CST
Since the pilgrams got tobacco from the native Indians, I guess Americans can sue the native Indians. This is stupid. The tobacco companies did not force anyone to smoke. (Continued…)
Kyle
posted 5/01/08 @ 3:04 AM CST
"Wouldn't it send a wonderful and unprecedented message to the world if Everett and Cramer would locate a child left fatherless by tobacco and donate $43,500 to his or her college education?"
It sure would. (Continued…)
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