Letter to the Editor for January 2, 2010

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Letter to the Editor for January 2, 2010

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Saturday, 02 January 2010 01:48

Discrimination
To the editor:
Reading in the Osceola News-Gazette concerning county officials request for funds – our tax dollars – to open a local primary care access network (PCAN) clinic in Buenaventura Lakes, I find this action to be racially motivated and discrimination against the non-Hispanic residents of Osceola County. Therefore, I cannot support the use of my tax dollars for the funding of this PCAN clinic.
My first comment is to state Rep. Darren Soto, who himself is Hispanic: Being that Buenaventura Lakes is predominately Hispanic and you, Rep. Darren Soto, are pushing for the PCAN clinic to be located in Buenaventura Lakes, I find this to be very racist. Are you not the same Rep. Darren Soto that, together with the Hispanic caucus, got funding passed for a Hispanic-only college scholarship program? Non-Hispanics need not apply.
If this were the other way around and was a college scholarship for whites only, well, imagine the cries of discrimination, but I guess Soto thinks the laws against discrimination do not apply to him or Hispanics.
My second comment is that I feel the PCAN clinic would better serve all the uninsured and underinsured residents of Osceola County if it were put in a location that was more accessible to the Osceola County community at large, and not just in the Hispanic community.
Mark Cox
St. Cloud