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On June 12, we will once again go to our respective polling places to cast a ballot for some of our 2012 candidates.
So many are asking why we have a Republican and a Democratic primary that day.
The reason we are having both is because more than one person is running for a particular seat. It is our duty as voters to whittle the process down to one person per party per seat.  
For example, on the Republican side:
• Bob Bundy and Wayne Kersey are running for the Lancaster County Council District 3 seat

There are so many inaccuracies in Franklin Whittlesey’s “Wake Up, America” article in the Jan. 11 Carolina Gateway that I don’t know where to start. He must have gotten his information from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh or Michelle Bachmann – not reliable fact sources.
Let’s start with “All the president does is campaign.” This is a completely ridiculous statement since now happens to be time when all candidates begin their campaigns. What would you call the South Carolina primary?

Many people have become unswervingly convinced that the ongoing controversy surrounding the administration’s health-care mandate has something to do with contraceptives.
Certainly that’s what the mandate itself deals with – and clearly that’s the narrative the president’s political and media allies are aggressively (and, so far, successfully) advancing. But contraception actually has very little to do with the uproar.
First, let’s recap what started this debate in the first place.

In his March 7 guest column, “Don’t believe in everything GOP says,” Tony Boswell attacks a previous guest column by Franklin Whittlesey, largely by leveling several accusations against Republicans.