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Letter: Midnight ride of the ‘Wheel Chair Gang’

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

The thundering hooves of the Midnight Rider heralding, in the name of the people, a wake-up call meant to raise awareness and a call to action … Moving forward in time to Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, the historic town of Gloucester, Va., a group of citizens exercised their rights to send the alert regarding the question of Government Run Healthcare (GRH) and calls to action the citizenry urging them fervently to vote in this year’s election.

The citizens, mostly seniors, who demonstrated in the "Wheel Chair Rally" are highly skeptical of healthcare being dictated and administered by government bureaucrats and not being decided between doctor and patient.

The group of wheel-chair "patients" was pushed up and down Main Street with placards and flags flying, expressing their frustration with the terms of GRH and more urgently "fear" at what we don’t know about our new laws. Seniors are being warned by their healthcare providers about upcomi...

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