Junior Spirit
DEAR EDITOR: The news that Sadee Broida, who is 12 years old and attends school in Ventura county, will share the Jr. Spirit title was most disappointing to me and many others as well. The Old Spanish Days’ rule for competing to become a Junior Spirit is quite clear according to your May 15th article.
A contestant must be eleven years old, NOT TWELVE, when she enters the competition and she must live in Santa Barbara County, NOT SOMEWHERE ELSE. The rule was not followed. The parents knowingly ignored it, or possibly they were not aware of it, which is doubtful. In either case the Old Spanish Day authorities choose to let the rule be broken. The father of Sadee argued that she should be declared the winner even though she was ineligible.
By allowing her to share the title, is there any lesson to be learned here? There certainly is! The lesson being presented to Sadee is that you don’t have to obey rules, and by the way, your parents will stick up for you when you don’t. That’s a great lesson for a twelve year old to learn!
I hope Sadee chooses not to learn that lesson! We all have choices in life but we also have to live with the consequences of our choices.
Old Spanish Days choose not to enforce a rule because it was the easy way out; I am disappointed that Old Spanish Days took the easy way out instead of the responsible way.
Pete Schenck
Santa Barbara
The real bully
DEAR EDITOR: Last week, the bias Washington Post and the left-leaning Obama media, released a now imploding story about a prank Mitt Romney might have done 47 years ago in high school. It was another attempt to distract the public away from his failed record and smear presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
However, who is the real bully? During his years as president, Obama attacked conservative radio + Fox News, slandered + bullied the Supreme Court, circumvented Congress with one executive order after another, attacked the TP Movement, and systematically tried to destroy our energy industries and the private sector.
Most recently, Obama is bullying and intimidating donors to Mitt Romney. According to Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal, 3 weeks ago, an Obama campaign website, ” Keeping GOP Honest.’ took the extraordinary step of publicly naming and assailing eight private citizens backing Mr. Romney. “Titled ” Behind the curtain: a brief history of Romney’s donors, “the post accused the eight of being wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records.” Mr. VanderSloot, the CEO of Melaleuca, was one of the eight and was smeared as being” litigious, combative, and a bitter foe of the gay rights movement.” He donated $1 million to Romney’s super PAC, and now has lost hundreds of customers after Obama’s attack.
So, I ask you America, who is the real bully? And, where is the press? Oh, I forgot, in Obama’s back pocket.
Voice your concerns, America.
Diana Thorn
Carpinteria
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