tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352780903142089915.post2279037000844059725..comments2024-01-12T14:51:23.690-08:00Comments on All Things Wildly Considered: Bad People In TownFrank Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18214921895704057150noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352780903142089915.post-57910888308363881652010-04-05T23:20:12.607-07:002010-04-05T23:20:12.607-07:00Anonymous - What an uplifting entry. Billboards do...Anonymous - What an uplifting entry. Billboards down and spirits up. You are right about the momentum. I hope nothing cools the flame - I'm trying to encourage activism on many levels. I pray for the betterment with total conviction of all concerned. What a wonderful step.Frank Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18214921895704057150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352780903142089915.post-18679535126218339762010-04-02T20:03:53.758-07:002010-04-02T20:03:53.758-07:00Oh we are ready! I think everyone was ready for a ...Oh we are ready! I think everyone was ready for a long time, they just didn't know how to link up together and form a coordinated response. Once we gave people a place to do that-look what happened! The Governor met with the PDT Times today, and he had the Head of his new Task Force with him. Frank will have an article over the week end. The Governor is really mad about this, and now knows exactly how they operate, and even who they are. Has anyone noticed that the big billboard signs have been taken down?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352780903142089915.post-50390140421310837562010-04-02T13:55:08.899-07:002010-04-02T13:55:08.899-07:00Anonymous - Amen. It have been my experience that ...Anonymous - Amen. It have been my experience that Southern Ohio folk may move a little slowly, but when they decide to take action, Watch out! Gov. Strickland has pledged to fire both barrels. I hope the extreme pressure from the public continues. We need a complete job, not one half-fixed. Gonna be lots of battles in this war, folks - are you ready?Frank Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18214921895704057150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352780903142089915.post-19668534968839922502010-04-02T09:11:21.617-07:002010-04-02T09:11:21.617-07:00Thank you Frank, that was well said. I have worked...Thank you Frank, that was well said. I have worked in the alcohol and drug treatment field for the past seven years. The current epidemic of prescription drug addiction and all its related social problems and needless deaths due to the availability of these drugs didn't just sneak up on us. It has been allowed to grow due in part to our apathy, fear, and feelings of powerlessness, and hopelessness. In the final analysis this is our community, and we will only see a solution to this assault on our families by taking action ourselves. Write your legislators, encourage others to do likiewise, demand an answer from them, hold them accountable, and above all recognize that all of us pay the price when we falsely believe there is nothing we can do. We in Southern ohio always rise to the challenge, we will this time. Lives are at stake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352780903142089915.post-32909883819988559962010-04-02T09:01:46.207-07:002010-04-02T09:01:46.207-07:00Anonymous - Thank you so much for your kind respon...Anonymous - Thank you so much for your kind response. I'm glad to be a service to the community, and I hope to be effective in my efforts to better the environment.<br />Bob - I realize many of the problems as they exist. I am still learning. I have contacted nearly all of the state officials by e-mail or by phone during the last week. You know Toyota developed so many satisfied customers during the past that Detroit has a problem with image, even after the recent woes for Toyota. Politicians, in general, have developed a similar distrusted public image. I pray the good ones become apparent to all.Frank Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18214921895704057150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352780903142089915.post-14642377802205797602010-04-01T19:13:25.194-07:002010-04-01T19:13:25.194-07:00Frank,
Thank you for being brutally honest about ...Frank, <br />Thank you for being brutally honest about our situation. When I put together the first town hall meeting in Wheelersburg last November, WSAZ channel 3 came early to set up and asked me how many people were coming. I honestly told him that I wasn't sure if it would be 5 or 50. I feared that our very real "sit back and watch attitude" you mention might prevail, but I had to give it a try. Well, we had 120 fill a room meant for 90. It seems that the people have not been affected by this "attitude" as much as certain elected officials on the local, county, state and federal level. As one of the very respected panelists from our most recent town hall said, "We must ask ourselves which elected officials have not become involved and why?". We need to be brutally honest about the answer to that question and hold them accountable at the polls.Bob Walton, Jr.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352780903142089915.post-9586223996891854582010-03-31T14:24:22.074-07:002010-03-31T14:24:22.074-07:00Anonymous - Amen, Amen, Amen! Thanks for your kind...Anonymous - Amen, Amen, Amen! Thanks for your kind words. They are extremely appreciated. I've got a computer, a voice, and a will -- no one is going to stop the movement now. I love you guys and I think we are doing something that will help the areas for many, many years. We are building strength with each day. God bless you.Frank Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18214921895704057150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352780903142089915.post-59532819957503905882010-03-30T20:56:21.572-07:002010-03-30T20:56:21.572-07:00Hey, I found your site to be AWESOME! Hope the Tow...Hey, I found your site to be AWESOME! Hope the Town Hall got everyone aware of what is really going on here. We had to watch what we said- THEY had people there, as always, protecting their "multi-million-dollar babies", while they suck the life out of our people and our economy and kill our children. We won't go away, we won't shut up, and we won't let them trod us into complacency.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352780903142089915.post-19055562345621653872010-03-28T08:25:23.803-07:002010-03-28T08:25:23.803-07:00Thanks Dave. I'm just doing something that I t...Thanks Dave. I'm just doing something that I think will benefit a lot of things in our community. I appreciate your support.Frank Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18214921895704057150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8352780903142089915.post-78804838634274873232010-03-27T22:05:07.485-07:002010-03-27T22:05:07.485-07:00Frank, I applaud you for leading the charge...You ...Frank, I applaud you for leading the charge...You will make a difference...You will succeed....The price of failure is too great for us all...The great people of Scioto County, when educated about the extent of the problem, will rise to the occasion....EDUCATE! EDUCATE! EDUCATE! It may be worthy to have town hall meetings all over the county to help spread the word.Dave Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12089245440406849397noreply@blogger.com