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Thank you for publishing Sameea Kamal’s article on page B1 of the Saturday, Aug. 20 edition, regarding California Republicans’ attempt to take over school boards (“Republicans putting more emphasis on local school board races“). Locally, pro-Trump Republicans are fully engaged in this effort.
They do not believe in science. They think COVID is a hoax and that horse medicine is the solution. They don’t want our schools to support LGBTQ+ kids or to teach about slavery and racism. They don’t even want schools to teach sex education or spend any time on social and emotional learning. They do not reflect our community’s values and voters should reject their candidates.
The article suggests Democrats are not focused on this issue, but our Santa Clara County Democratic Party actively recruited and will support well-qualified, community-oriented candidates to oppose these MAGA-supported candidates in every single contested race. To learn more, visit sccdp.org/schools.
Bill James Santa Clara County Democratic Party Chair San Jose
Thanks for the intriguing story on challenges faced by food banks due to the new state law (“Law to reduce waste has added to food bank woes,” Page B1, Aug. 23).
My family supports some local food pantries with cash, canned and boxed goods, but I had no appreciation of the role perishables with little remaining shelf life have on a company like Second Harvest’s operations. It seems to me that the roads to E.coli, Shigella and Listeria are paved with good intentions.
On wonder who pays for the medical care if folks get severely sick.
Stephen Okonek Half Moon Bay
Driving on Highway 101 has become a nightmare. The rich sail along alone on toll roads and the rest of us crawl by seeing empty roadways.
One wonders what kind of public transportation bureaucrat came up with such a solution to using our highways.
Alice Schaffer Smith Palo Alto
Thank you for continuing to print Marc Theissen’s stuff – it instructs us all in the craft of stretching reality to fit ideology, a key to today’s sad politics.
Case in point: In his most recent column “IRA won’t reduce inflation or affect climate change” (Page A7, Aug. 25) he uses the work of Bjorn Lomborg, a noted statistician who likes to pretend to be a public intellectual but instead uses numbers to defy, deny and subvert reality. But then that is what Theissen is also so very good at – in the words of Mark Twain, “lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Birds of a feather, get the flock out of here.
A nuclear deal with Iran is important but it must prevent them from developing nuclear weapons.
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A nuclear deal without adequate safeguards would only help the Mullahs accelerate their nuclear weapons development and increase nuclear proliferation in the world.
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