Dear, dear, dear

Dread letter office: Once again, the mail for The Buzz and Dear Abby got mixed up, leaving us to solve people’s problems.

Dear Buzz: I’m an Ohio state legislator who was giving a high school lecture on how a bill comes a law, but officials aren’t happy about the visual aid I used. What did I do wrong?

Rep. Les Lecher

Dear Les: We don’t recall Miss September guest-starring in School House Rock’s “I’m Just a Bill.”

Dear Buzz: I’m running for public office and everybody’s criticizing my laugh as sounding forced and calculated. How can I convince people that thinking about national health care makes me titter like a school girl?

Laughing on the inside

Dear Laughing: We’d find it hard to stifle a giggle, too, if we were ahead 33 points in the polls and had just raised $27 million in the last three months.

Dear Buzz: My husband is running for political office, and I find it unfair that people consider me a “trophy wife,” just because I’m 24 years younger. What do you think?

First Lady in Waiting

Dear First: It could be worse; you could be Rudy Giuliani’s trophy ex-wife.

—Jon Bauer, Herald Writer

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