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The right conveniently
forgets acts of violence
Re. “Supreme Court leak is unprecedented betrayal,” Letters to the Editor, Page A6, May 19:
The writer claims to be shocked that some people protested the leak of the Supreme Court’s intention of banning abortion in the United States. Their anger led them to vandalize a pro-life center. She says, “I’ve never heard of Republicans stooping this low.”
I’ve heard of raids on abortion clinics and even the killing of the doctors who perform them. Isn’t murder worse than vandalism?
Perhaps the writer wasn’t aware of the group of Trumpers who charged the Congress of the United States with the goal of hanging the vice president, killing Democrats and overtaking our elected and constitutionally authorized government.
Me thinks she protests too much.
Jim Cauble
Hayward
Vote for Murphy
for clerk-recorder
I want to share why I’m supporting Devin T. Murphy for Contra Costa County clerk-recorder.
First, what is the clerk-recorder? The clerk-recorder is a crucial position in our county that has the tremendous job of overseeing our elections, providing marriage/business licenses, and birth and death certificates. In short, the Clerk-Recorder’s Office touches our lives from cradle to grave.
I know first-hand that Devin is a fearless and inspiring leader, and is the best person to be our next clerk-recorder. He has integrity, compassion, and a vision for a more responsive local government.
Devin has tremendously valuable lived experience as an openly gay Black man who grew up in a working-class union family. He understands the challenges many in our community face when interacting with local government and is committed to blazing a trail for progress.
Vote Devin T. Murphy by June 7 for the future of Contra Costa.
Maryssa Hall
El Cerrito
Cook-Kallio’s experience
is what sets her apart
Cheryl Cook-Kallio is the best-qualified candidate for the Alameda County Board of Education. She was a classroom teacher for 40 years in local public schools with an master’s degree in history emphasizing the U.S. Constitution. She has received multiple teaching awards and is a national board member of the Center for Civic Education. Her two terms as Pleasanton city councilwoman speak to her ability to work with various viewpoints. Cheryl’s grassroots campaign is endorsed by education and civic leaders.
Eric Dillie disqualified himself by being an administrator of the failed Livermore Valley Charter School, which lost its accreditation. He also pleaded no contest for failure to report a child abuse incident as required by law.
Sharon Piekarski
Pleasanton
Profit, not benefits,
optimized at Seven Hills
Too many times communities are presented with plans that maximize developer profits with maximal tax revenue, perhaps a worthy outcome. From a resident’s perspective, successful planning tends to result from optimizing benefits to the community at large while scrutinizing a max-scaled project’s unintended consequences.
Solely based on the description of this project, its objective is clearly scaled to generate profits based on the high cost of site preparation and structural construction. Four years to construct, an estimated 17,000 truckloads of excavated material (onto Ygnacio Valley Road), hundreds of parking spaces – these illustrate quite the effort to transform a secluded property. Can a smaller-scale development be viable at this location with the high cost of site development and construction?
The county can do better to serve its many communities and regional needs.
Lester Tong
Walnut Creek
The time has come
for internet police
The tragedy in Buffalo makes me realize that we need a full-time police department dedicated to the internet. It is long overdue.
The large online organizations simply cannot be trusted to police themselves. For the good of our society, we cannot let the social platforms go unpoliced. It is just not practical. I guess that means we also have to have internet laws.
I am sorry that it has come to this. There needs to be a code of conduct.
Gene Nokes
Dublin
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