Vote sure on Prop. 50to foil Trump’s insurance policies
Up to now 10 days, President Trump has demonstrated why Californians should vote for Proposition 50, which he opposes.
Trump has:
• Launched an AI video of himself carrying a crown whereas flying a jet and defecating on Individuals.
• Demolished the East Wing of the White Home after promising he wouldn’t.
• Pursued a fee of $230 million in taxpayer {dollars} to himself.
• Instructed GOP lawmakers to not negotiate on escalating well being care premiums, conserving the federal government closed.
• Licensed the homicide of individuals in boats in worldwide waters with out even presenting proof of criminality.
• Had his crony-filled Justice Division indict his “enemies” on flimsy costs.
• Talked about ending Social Safety and Medicare.
• Bailed out strategically unimportant Argentina and American billionaires with a $20 billion credit score line whereas impoverished youngsters die as a consequence of his cuts to USAID.
• Continued deploying unneeded armed forces to Democratic cities.
Vote sure on Proposition 50 to cease Trump’s madness.
Jim BootsDanville
Prop. 50 would worsenunderrepresentation
Is Proposition 50 actually about “saving democracy”?
Nope. In 2010, Californians handed an initiative to assign congressional redistricting to the residents redistricting fee created by an initiative two years earlier.
At present Republicans maintain 9 of California’s 52 U.S. Home seats. If Proposition 50 passes, that would drop to 4, regardless of 38% of California voters selecting Donald Trump in 2024.
California’s inhabitants has remained flat since 2020, whereas Texas has grown by 2.7 million folks — cause sufficient for Texas to redraw its districts.
No to gerrymandering. Vote no on Proposition 50.
Carolina YunkerAlbany
Trump accomplisheswhat 9/11 couldn’t
Re: “East Wing is torn down” (Web page A1, Oct. 24).
The pictures of the demolition of the East Wing of the White Home remind me of 9/11. Our personal president is reaching what terrorist Bin Laden did not do — destroying the premier image of our nation and democracy. Instead will probably be a disgusting vainness undertaking: a huge ballroom designed by Donald Trump for him and his pals that may overshadow the integrity of the historic White Home. It’s not his palace to control as he pleases; it’s the Individuals’s Home.
The Nationwide Fee and Congress want to face as much as cease “King” Trump from destroying what’s left of America.
At a time when most Individuals are struggling, and authorities applications, companies, analysis and jobs are being slashed, it’s an abomination to construct a logo of corrupt opulence by and for billionaires. This destruction reveals that we don’t have a president however a home terrorist within the White Home.
Mikki NorrisEl Sobrante
Newsom should protectstate’s coastal waters
Many of the world’s megacities are positioned in coastal areas. This shut proximity to coastal areas has been related to higher high quality of life, and enhanced psychological well being and well-being as a consequence of reductions in stress, improved air high quality, rest and bodily lively life, elevated social interactions and non secular connection to the ocean.
Nevertheless, human actions are harming the ocean’s well being. From kelp forests declining to unintentionally catching and killing marine wildlife, we as a world neighborhood are endangering a useful resource that we’ve relied on for numerous generations.
We have now to cease unsustainable marine practices instantly. We are able to accomplish that by increasing Marine Protected Areas and upgrading State Marine Conservation Areas and State Marine Reserves.
Arjun JadhavBerkeley
GOP voters should shake‘rural consciousness’
If rural Individuals voted based mostly on self-interest, they’d assist Democrats. Republicans wish to lower Democrat-supported applications that profit rural states: Medicaid spending, SNAP (meals stamps) and college lunches. Donald Trump can be chopping subsidies for photo voltaic farms and wind generators — subsidies that disproportionately go to pink states. Now he desires us to purchase Argentine beef.
Moreover, as a result of rural areas have decrease incomes than urbanites, they pay comparatively little of the taxes that finance these applications.
But financial self-interest appears to have been swamped by “rural consciousness” — the assumption that these of us who dwell in cities don’t perceive or worth rural tradition and rural lives. Sadly, there may be some reality to this. City dwellers are unlikely to completely perceive the attachment of rural Individuals to a specific place and its time-worn rhythms of life. Our unhealthy, however Democratic insurance policies nonetheless do assist the heartland far more than Republican stinginess.
Jim WolpmanWalnut Creek
