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The monster you create

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently announced that he is going to give up the leadership of his party because a large number of his party members have ideas that differ from his.

This is so similar to the story of Frankenstein getting destroyed by his monster.

McConnell was the architect of no negotiations, stand your ground on what you believe — regardless of the facts. But now that members of his party firmly believe in this and he cannot get them to accept facts, he knows it is time to go.

This should be a lesson to all.

Regardless of your status in life, business, religion, or politics, the monster that you create may be the monster that takes you down.

We thank McConnell for his service.

Many of his policies may not have served all Americans well, but he was loyal to his constituents.

James Muldrow, Columbia

Opposes CCDC plan

So what does the Coastal Carolina Development Corporation (CCDC) want to develop?

They want to purchase Hilton Head affordable home owner condos and turn them into subsidized rentals, including using Section 8 vouchers to entice commuter workers.

However these already citizen-worker-owned units will eventually result in subsidized rental districts aided by finances approved by the Town of Hilton Head.

The CCDC will outbid any purchaser to accomplish its goal.

Once a certain number of condos in a development become occupied rental units, financial institutions will refuse to issue mortgage money for these buildings. So, the CCDC will be free to hollow out these communities for subsidized rentals.

The town will provide processing administration, too, so will we have a new Subsidized Rental Housing Department emerge to benefit CCDC?

Of course none of the people involved in this endeavor live in these repurposed areas and the 15,000 commuter workers continue to commute to our commuter island, and these new subsidized rental districts will grow as CCDC will be the deed owners of these condos.

So disrespectful of our current condo-owner residents, in my opinion.

Lyn P. Bullard, HHI

Oh, please …

If embryos are children, can we take them as dependents on our income tax returns?

For crying out loud.

David Myer, HHI

What’s marriage got to do with it?

Today I went to the SCDMV to renew my driver’s license and to get a Real ID.

I stepped into a time warp that took me back more than 40 years.

After handing the clerk the application, she asked me if I had my marriage license.

Really? Why would I need that?

My name hasn’t changed since 1972. My first SCDL was issued in 1974.

The only difference on my soon-to-expire license is that I’m older, wrinklier and a few pounds heavier . . . OK, quite a few.

My old license was issued 20 years ago, but renewed 10 years ago without having to have a new photo taken.

I understand needing a more recent photo (although I really loved the old one), but why the marriage license?

The clerk never asked any of the men for their marriage licenses.

And what does that have to do with me driving? What if my husband were deceased or we were divorced or just separated? Would I need my parents’ signature?

It’s time the SCDMV stepped into the 21st century. Driving a car doesn’t require a marriage license.

I wasn’t asking for a date, just a renewed license. I’m quite happy with my present hubby.

Marian F. Heckrotte, Beaufort