Rep. Mills must be held accountable
So, let’s see if I can keep this straight. Rep. Cory Mills now has a restraining order against him — protecting an ex-girlfriend after she told a judge Mills threatened to release explicit images of her and harm her future romantic partners. This is happening less than a year after a different girlfriend called the Washington, D.C., police and reported that he had assaulted her. And all this is going on while he may be married to a third woman.
These don’t even include the scandals in his professional life: the House Ethics Committee’s investigation into Mills’ business and loans to his own campaign, the unpaid rent on his penthouse in Washington, and credible doubts about Mills’ accounts of his military service.
As a woman and a mother, I am sick and tired of watching the Republican Party normalize this entitled and immoral behavior. Our elected representatives should be held to a high standard, yet the GOP seems entirely uninterested in holding Mills accountable for his poor decisions.
Let’s just hope that a year from now, when Mills is up for reelection, the voters will do what his colleagues can’t find the courage to do and remove him from office.
Heather Startup Lake Mary
OIA shouldn’t air Noem video
I was born in Orlando, and have lived in Central Florida most of my life. I am very proud of our airport. It feels like Florida, and represents our community beautifully.
With that pride in mind, I strongly urge the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority to refuse to show Kristi Noem’s TSA video blaming Democrats for the current government shutdown, as other airports have done. This use of federal resources for partisan purposes is illegal. While that objection may not be meaningful to the current administration, it should be so to American citizens. Almost as importantly, this video will immediately alienate a great number of travelers — perhaps the majority of them. Surely agitating the public is counter to the mission of GOAA. Preserving Orlando’s image with a pleasant and efficient travel experience is, on its own, ample reason to reject this egregious bit of propaganda.
Daniel Wise Winter Park
Trump keeps promise in Middle East
October 13, 2025, will long be remembered as the day a man who some have called a threat to democracy and a Nazi did the impossible. President Donald Trump fulfilled another promise by returning 20 Israeli hostages to the loving arms of their families.
After delaying his trip to spend time with the joyful families, he then flew to Egypt, where in front of a stage full of world leaders he signed a peace agreement with the leadership of Hamas and Israel to accept his 20-point peace plan to end the war. Another promise kept! He doesn’t need some shiny peace trophy. He made peace through strength.
While the Left continues what I see as their soul-destroying hatred of Trump, aka the “Peace President,” he continues keeping his promises and winning.
Richard Pluth Casselberry
Hegseth can’t control media
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that all Pentagon media must sign a “pledge.” Those who refuse, he said, will see their access restricted. Most members of the national media have refused (“News organizations, including Hegseth’s former employer Fox, reject new Pentagon reporting rules,” Oct. 14).
The Trump administration isn’t the first to clash with the press, but in modern history I believe it’s certainly the most antagonistic. Are leaks a threat to national security? Who knows? What we do know is that the most notorious leak — the “SignalGate” scandal — came from Hegseth himself.
Who could have guessed that a part-time Fox News host would be a chaotic Secretary of Defense? Answer: almost everyone.
George Devitt Maitland
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