Cupp’s leadership void allows crazy vaccine debate to continue
After opposition from certain quarters, House Bill 248 is now set to be “paused.”
While that is obviously an improvement over the circus-like actions of its proponents, the whole episode has shined a light on a far more dangerous issue infecting the General Assembly.
While it is hardly noteworthy to see misanthropes such as Rep. Jennifer Gross, R-west Chester, and House Health Committee Chairman Scott Lipps, R-franklin, pushing this anti-human agenda (demonstrating that they are the norm in the Assembly rather than the exception), the bigger issue is the leadership itself.
When the ethically bereft Larry Householder was removed from the speakership (after a majority in both parties eschewed such virtues as honesty, integrity and honor by elevating him yet again), it appeared that a new dawn was nigh as the heretofore wellrespected Robert Cupp was selected to take his place.
What observers did not recognize is that whatever civic virtues Cupp might (or might not – it has become hard to tell) possess, one fundamental attribute of the position which must be wholly beyond his capability is that of leadership.
Instead of directing the House to take actions designed to benefit the people of the state, he has instead stood aside and allowed the fascists and lunatics to run amok and advance every assault upon humanity that their febrile minds can envision.
Instead of exerting leadership and announcing, unequivocally, that HB 248 and others of that ilk would be squelched, he has merely “paused” the defilement of the citizenry, hoping, perhaps, that some opponents (i.e. business interests) would be assuaged long enough to permit the fusillade to then resume against the upstanding citizenry.
It remains incumbent upon the people of this great state to maintain the pressure to stop the moral destruction that so many in the General Assembly appear to actively advancing.
Christopher Gallutia, Reynoldsburg