Walnut Creek shouldreelect Kevin Wilk
Kevin Wilk has been a tireless chief on the Walnut Creek Metropolis Council. We should always reelect him.
He’s continually attending native occasions and interesting with residents. He listens to us — now we have informed him we wish Walnut Creek to be a protected place to dwell, work, store and play, so he has made public security a prime precedence.
Whereas he was mayor, the Metropolis Council enacted protected gun storage legal guidelines that assist defend our kids. He voted to ban the sale of flavored vapes to guard our college students. He championed a buffer zone at Deliberate Parenthood to guard sufferers and employees. Members of the LGBTQ neighborhood can really feel safer once they see the Delight flag raised each June due to his help.
Most just lately he campaigned for Measure O to supply many wanted upgrades to Walnut Creek amenities and elevated staffing on the Walnut Creek police power.
Vote to reelect Kevin.
Sue HamillWalnut Creek
Thurmond doesn’t passmuster for governor
Re: “The school ratings ‘dashboard’ receives a D for dysfunctional” (Web page A6, Sept. 18).
As the present state superintendent of public instruction, Tony Thurmond seeks your help in his bid to be governor of California.
The findings famous on this article coated his tenure directing public training. Elevating obscurity to masks ongoing failures doesn’t bode effectively for a gubernatorial candidate. Public training continued with an absence of accountability; Thurmond’s failure to advertise important motion towards accountability whereas main public training shouldn’t be rewarded.
With a ‘D’ grade in training, Thurmond’s calling lies elsewhere; that calling will not be California’s subsequent governor.
R CoteCastro Valley
Governors are saddledwith CPUC’s failures
Re: “State isn’t helping PG&E customers” (Web page A6, Sept. 19).
In response to the letter about how the “state isn’t helping PG&E customers” cope with the utility’s greed, the author ought to know that it’s as much as our governor to nominate California Public Utility Fee members who will act within the pursuits of California residents and ratepayers.
As a substitute, what we’ve gotten for a few years are appointees with ties to the investor-owned utilities who give them no matter they ask for somewhat than correctly regulate them as they’re anticipated to do. This corruption has been occurring for a very long time and can doubtless proceed so long as the utilities pays huge donations to campaigns and provide high-paying jobs as rewards to their authorities benefactors.
Beth WeinbergerOakland
GOP leaders are latewith Trump denunciation
Re: “111 former GOP officials are backing Harris, call Trump ‘unfit to serve’” (Web page A3, Sept. 19).
I discover it very irritating that one month earlier than the nationwide election, 111 former GOP officers determined to go public and endorse Kamala Harris as a result of they imagine Donald Trump is unfit to serve.
I’m not saying they’re mistaken, however their timing is unacceptable. The place had been they in the course of the primaries once they might have impacted the collection of the GOP presidential candidate? If they’d spoken up then, they could have engineered the collection of a worthwhile Republican candidate.
The Democrats have stood up twice within the final two elections to sway the primaries. First once they had been afraid that Bernie Sanders was certain to win the nomination and, in a single Tremendous Tuesday, chosen Biden. This time round they ousted Joe Biden, who was seen as medically unfit and certain to lose to Trump.
Now the Republican Social gathering is a catastrophe and should by no means get better and we’ll transfer nearer to socialism.
Bob ThompsonSan Ramon
Pray our nation staysa constitutional republic
Re: “Letter gets its civics lesson backward” (Web page A6, Sept. 19).
My goodness, America is a constitutional republic, not a “democracy,” for good cause. I current to you in microcosm an instance of how a so-called democracy works;
California is “blue” and should all the time be so. Nonetheless “red” voters in a few of California’s rural districts haven’t any sway. California is a democracy and, as a state, it needs to be, albeit it’s now a “one-party” state.
However when you extrapolate that nationally, America completely turns into a one-party nation. This may increasingly meld with the will of some to manipulate our nice nation from the left. Nonetheless, the founders brilliantly anticipated that drawback, permitting for the the person voters to pick their nationwide legislators individually whereas giving the underrepresented residents some say in nationwide authorities.
We have to proceed this methodology of presidency. The choice ain’t fairly.
Robin HallWalnut Creek
