BMV’s red tape is a disservice
Regarding Frank Gray’s column, “BMV’s insurance checks not going to form” (Oct. 11), amen.
My wife and I had a similar experience with the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles this summer.
We received a letter from the BMV several weeks after being involved in an vehicle accident, requesting verification of proof of insurance. After telephoning our insurance company, we were promised that verification would be sent.
Several weeks later, we received a letter from the BMV stating that our driver’s licenses were suspended and had been suspended for several days.
Placing a second call to our insurance company, we were assured that the verification on the proper form had indeed been sent. As a followup, our insurance company faxed the form a second time.
My wife and I stopped at the reinstatement center at Pine Valley, thinking that everything would be in order. We were told by an employee that “we had to physically be in their office when the fax came in and if we were not physically present at that time, the form would have been forwarded to Indianapolis.
We called our insurance company asking that the proof of insurance verification form be sent for a third time.
What a disservice to the citizens of Indiana.
TOM BECKER Fort Wayne
Casino would be harmful to city
In his letter, “Build a casino on the riverfront” (Oct. 1), Tom McComb mentions the “positive economic impact of a casino” built on the city-owned property along the St. Joseph River.
As one who has studied the gambling expansion issue in Indiana and worked along with others to oppose it, I hope those who make the decisions in regard to this property will thoroughly investigate communities which have great riverfront developments without gambling involved. A casino brings much unwanted negative elements which will hurt people and businesses.
I hope that those who may develop the riverfront will have more creative ideas than a casino. There are many communities which have casinos who now wish they had never made that fateful decision.
REV. SCOTT D. SHOAFF Garrett
Cake revealed more about Kelty
Republican mayoral candidate Matt Kelty’s much-publicized 43rd birthday cake, insulting as it was to fellow Republicans such as Steve Shine, Nelson Peters, Karen Richards and Sam Talarico, actually serves as what psychologists call a projective test. Such tests reveal persons’ subconscious fears, concerns, and obsessions. The local GOP headquarters portrayed as an outhouse by Kelty supporters at his party? Hmmmm. Could anyone really picture Nelson Peters, if he had won the GOP primary, endorsing such a tasteless, dumb stunt? Or Democrat Tom Henry? These two gentlemen have more class.
ANSON SHUPE Fort Wayne
Hypocrisy lives among all of us
This is a response to Gordon Klopfenstein’s letter, “Bush a hypocrite about valuing life” (Oct. 1).
Klopfenstein seems to be really concerned about hypocrisy, especially as it involves the president. He expresses his concern by using the favorite weapon of the political left, words such as “evil,” “hypocrite,” “arrogant,” “silver spoon.”
I think it might have been more helpful if he could provide us with some facts concerning the success/failure of stem-cell programs or the effect on the lives of women who have had abortions.
Hypocrisy, it seems to me, lives in every one of us, to one degree or another, with the possible exception of Klopfenstein.
JAMES M. STREIT Fort Wayne
