Here are some of the issues area residents are discussing. The statements were phoned in anonymously, so the Courier does not vouch for their veracity, nor do we know what motivated callers:

This going out to these collectors. If you call me and leave a message it is then up to me to get back to you to acknowledge I got the message. You don’t have to leave 50 different messages at different places.

To the sanity caller, I guess the Democrats have done well in Liberty County. Nationally, Barack has already made some insane decisions with Gitmo. This old Republican ain’t going nowhere.
I had the opportunity
to stop by the Liberty County welcome center and that has to be the biggest waste of taxpayers’ dollars I’ve ever seen. No one there, no customers, yet we’re paying people to sit there.

Instead of a $1 million courthouse that we don’t need, why doesn’t the city give it to the school system to make up for the money the governor just cut from their budgets? The schools could use it a lot more than we need a courthouse.

I don’t care if you have a child in the first grade or 12th grade, teachers and coaches who condone bullying behavior are bullies themselves. They need to step up and stop it.

This is to all the people who voted for Obama. I hope you are satisfied because he just signed a bill for abortion. All those deaths will be on you.