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Lost respect

What's our Sen. Koering doing to us? Help hunting and fishing with our tax money and take it away from the elderly, mental health, disabled and handicapped. He'll never get my vote. He's lost a lot of respect from the people in Minnesota.

What's the city council doing?

Try to figure what the city council is doing. Seems like they are only there for the free insurance and easy buck. Our Medicare went up, our insurance supplement went up and now our taxes are going up. Guess we'll have to give up our homes and move out of Brainerd.

Keep the drugs out

Osama bin Laden does not need Anthrax or smallpox to kill us off. All he needs to do is keep sending all the drugs into the United States and we need to guard our own backyard, our borders, our schools, our neighborhoods. We need some of our men here to keep the drugs out of the United States.

Turtle racing

In a state that provides itself a wildlife preservation, I can't believe that turtle racing wasn't banned years ago.