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Other views 'stupid?'

Larry Rodgers’ letter (“One take on the forum”, April 16) gave me quite a laugh. Evidently, any Butler County commissioner candidate who disagrees with his view on the need for an expensive county property reassessment is either lying or stupid. These are his words: “Saying that reassessment is a bad thing is a lie or stupid.”

The writer surely knows what constitutes a lie, claiming as he does that someone is lying because he doesn’t agree with a candidate’s stand on reassessment is absurd. And publicly calling a candidate’s position on reassessment stupid shows the maturity of a grade-school playground taunt.

I would venture to say that a large portion of Butler County’s population agrees with Republican Butler County commissioner candidate Lisa Metcalfe’s opposition to an expensive property reassessment. Are these citizens of Butler County stupid also?

What are the writer’s self-righteous pronouncements on Metcalfe’s other positions? Are being pro-life, pro-gun, pro-fracking, and making the county government live within its means also stupid positions? Does creating a pro-business environment while protecting taxpayers mean that the candidate is lying?

Metcalfe is exactly what Butler County needs — young leadership with a vision for the future. If the past four years have proven anything, it is that the old boys club at the courthouse has got to go.

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