To the editor:

Voting is under way in Florida and, in the not-too-distant future, it will be all over, but the shouting and we will have elected a new President and members of Congress along with local officials. Whether or not it will be a change for the better, no one will know until all the votes are counted. Let’s hope it’s for the best.

I hope that voters wake up before they cast their ballots. It seems like a large group of our elected officials including the people in the White House now and many other members of Congress have disregarded the rights of everyday citizens in the last four years and most of the media has gone along with their radical and progressive policies like supported a policy that gives transgender people who rely on the government for medical care including those in prison and immigration detention access to free transition treatment, including surgical care, transgender athletes in women sports, men in women’s bathrooms, student loan bailouts, open boarders The motto seems to be “take away from taxpayers and give to the ungrateful, criminals and illegals.” We need candidates that have policies and common sense that support the American taxpayer and law and order.

It also seems our elected officials in Cape Coral think running our city is a joke or a game. Richard Carr is the only sitting councilmember who was not in the office for the stipend vote and his first act was to not take the money. He has the willingness to listen to the people of the community and do what’s best for the city. The rest were elected to do their job. Instead, they voted to enrich themselves and not listen to the voters like voting for the renovations at Jaycee Park, changing zoning laws allowing huge apartment complexes to be built without worry about the infrastructure of the city. It seems they have no intention of doing what’s best for our city.

Enough is enough!

Lou Walker

Cape Coral