We don’t have money to hire police officers; we wait over 20 years to fix a roof leak at the convention center; we can’t repair our roads; we throw billions of dollars at a rail system that is way overbudget and way overdue. Now we want to open the till and throw billions more on a new stadium that is not needed. It’s a complete failure of leadership that destroys trust in this political system.

Phillip Smotherman

Pearl City

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