Reality check
Letter from the real world in response to Connie Jorgensen’s recent quote that her $32,000 annual salary is like “a volunteer job with a clothing allowance” [“Cool aide,” The Week, September 6]. Did you really say this? This remark seems arrogant and out of touch. As a social worker I have had many jobs in which $32,000 would have been a big pay increase. Saying that a $32,000 salary is like a clothing allowance is an insult to all of the people in our community who work hard every day to keep our community safe, take care of our children and provide invaluable services at salaries much less than $32,000. I know many people who have to work two or more jobs in order to make ends meet because they do work they believe in even though they are grossly underpaid. You may be a brilliant campaign manager but this quote is unfortunately out of touch with the real world in Charlottesville.
Marguerite David
Charlottesville
Kilgore’s my guy
During a recent debate Tim Kaine accused Jerry Kilgore of saying that Roe v. Wade should be overturned [“Having it both ways, and then not at all,” The Week, August 30]. He went on to say that if that happened, women who had abortions and the doctors who performed them would be criminalized. Well, duh—if one breaks the law he’s an “outlaw.” If Roe v. Wade was overturned then abortion would be “illegal,” as it was before 1973.
There is one thing, however, that Mr. Kaine failed to mention, and that is, thousands of innocent lives would be spared. If those women who want to abort their babies were to go back to the “clothes hanger” and risk their lives, then that’s their choice. Actually, many are dying as a result of “legal” abortions. Maybe they need to consider the truth that “the wages of sin is death.”
Thank God (can I say God here?) for Jerry Kilgore and his stand on this issue. I know he can be trusted to make the right decision on other moral issues. We need more people like him and Rob Bell in the political process. They have my vote.
Rev. Kort Greene Jr.
Scottsville
CLARIFICATION
Last week’s story about Toll Brothers’ rumored incursion into the local housing market mentioned the recent arrival here of another national builder, Ryan Homes. That company has an office in Albemarle County as well as in Culpeper and Louisa.