SPEAK UP!
A CERTAIN city councilor’s statement “military equipment is most often used against people of color” is reckless and has no basis in fact or truth. This individual’s only goal is to cause further divisiveness and hatred for law enforcement. DS
AS I write this, the great champion of human rights, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has just passed. Already the Republican Senate, disregarding their pious platitudes of 2016, are drooling over filling her seat like dogs over a bone. Shameless hypocrites all. Vote! MB
THE BEST way for us to pay tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is to cast our votes for those candidates who represent her principles of honesty, equality, honor and loyalty. KJK
REPUBLICAN SENATORS are praising the distinguished career of Supreme Court Justice RBG, yet nearly all will vote to confirm the Trump nominee who will be committed to overturning Roe v. Wade and other issues she fought for during her illustrious career — e.g., LGBTQ rights, ACA. What a bunch of hypocrites. LM
IN 2016, Supreme Court Justice (Antonin) Scalia died 11 months before the election, and Mitch McConnell refused to consider a replacement before the election. It’s now 2020. RBG dies two months before the upcoming election, and her body is still warm when McConnell says she needs to replaced ASAP. Hypocrite. EJG
THE JOURNAL tells us we can only find the names of National Merit semifinalists online, but the Journal prints the name of any high schooler involved in an activity or sport, no matter how insignificant or unimportant. The Journal’s priorities are really screwed up when it fails to recognize high academic achievers in the paper. RB RE: “WHOSE child shoots a police officer and celebrates?” column in the Sept. 19 Journal by Diane Dimond. What a great op-ed and right on! How refreshing. DAW
I BELIEVE the environmentalists’ lawsuits over implementation of the (Endangered Species Act) of 1973, and the courts’ overzealous decisions to eliminate timber harvest to purportedly protect the spotted owl throughout all public lands in the West, have contributed significantly to the size and severity of the West Coast fires. ASM
SENIORS: CAN you live without Social Security? Our president has suspended the payroll tax until Jan. 1, and swears he will suspend it permanently if re-elected. If he does, funding for Social Security will stop. And we will get our last Social Security check in 2023 when the funding runs out. MD
GOVERNOR ON Sept. 17 eases COVID-19 restrictions to allow: pumpkin picking in commercial patches, practice for sports but no games and use of swimming pools and camping now that is largely too cold to do that. Nothing else. No relief for restaurants and other business. Travel ban still covers 80% of states. So ridiculous it would be laughable, except it isn’t funny. Businesses and their workers continue to suffer, for no reasonable reason . ... SDH
IT’S THAT time of the year — unwanted phonebooks. Anyone who drives down Corrales Road gets to see the plethora of them underneath the mailboxes lining the street. What an eyesore. Most lie there for weeks. A waste of paper. There should be some way that they are distributed on a request-only basis. Save a tree and a plastic bag. MH
WHEN N.M. gets through COVID, and we will, the voters need to make changes so no governor can ever issue emergency orders for longer than a 30-day period without calling for a special session and having the entire Legislature approve any further restrictions. ... MEH
WOULD SOMEONE please tell me what God was thinking when he created goat heads, squash bugs and tomato worms? JSD
I ABSOLUTELY walk with the writer of the Sunday letter: “My father shouldn’t have died from COVID; his medical challenges put him at risk, people without masks put him in the grave.” She means you, mask denier. Trump. Mask refusniks. All of you. Two hundred thousand Americans and counting died because one infected person did not wear a mask. You. DRK
SUNDAY WHILE taking my little dog for her morning walk she was viciously attacked by two big dogs running off leash. I rushed her to the emergency hospital, but her wounds were too severe and she had to be euthanized. If you have never seen your pet literally torn apart the way she was, you can never understand how sick it makes you feel. Please, please, people, if you can’t take proper care of your dogs, don’t have any. She didn’t deserve to die the way she did. LM
YOU CAN’T get the election flu from surfaces so can we please bring back the condiments at Costco so I don’t have to eat a plain hot dog? KP
I AGREE it’s highly improper for the Cibola County sheriff to appear in a political TV campaign wearing his uniform. What he said was also found to be misleading. The target of the add, Xochitl Torres Small, was accused of lying about supporting the Second Amendment. She voted for (universal) background checks … which simply closes a loophole in the law. I believe most people support these checks. Vote all involved out of office. MY
... I’M NOT just voting for (Trump). I’m voting for the Second Amendment ... the next Supreme Court justice ... the Electoral College and the republic we live in. I’m voting for the police and law and order ... the military and the veterans ... the flag that is always missing from the Democratic background ... the right to speak my opinion and not be censored ... secure borders ... the right to praise my God without fear ... every unborn soul the Democrats want to (kill) ... freedom and the American Dream . ... What are you voting for? TF
AS A pro-life Republican, there are several issues on which I could meet a Democrat in the middle. However, there is no middle ground on abortion. The Democratic Party refuses to protect the most vulnerable, our unborn babies. I challenge every Democrat to spend two minutes ... listening to the YouTube recording, “The Sound of Abortion.” If you do, you may never look at your Democratic “women’s reproductive health” abortion rationale in a favorable light again. JLC
SOMEONE SAID recently, “If you had a winning lottery ticket, would you mail it in or deliver it in person?” Your vote is one of the most important things you own. Make sure it counts. Vote in person. You can do it on your way to Walmart. CB
THERE ARE two sets of political candidates that have made Albuquerque TV unwatchable. Makes me sick that at every break in any show we have to hear all that baloney. I wish I could vote AGAINST every last one of them. CMM
IN THE last election I voted by mail. Received a ballot. Filled out, mailed at the post office. Several days later, received a second ballot. Did my first vote count? Could I have voted twice? This was not a postal problem — not saying the post office is as reliable as it used to be. VSL
OUR PRESIDENT isn’t afraid of very rare, mail-in voter fraud. He’s afraid people who historically don’t vote, will. Please do. PM
TRUMP AND Pence talk like the last four years were still under Obama and Biden. Under Trump we have racial protests due to police brutality, rioting by people wanting peaceful protests to look bad ... a cratering economy with millions out of work and a deadly worldwide pandemic not taken seriously. PW
... PRESIDENT TRUMP signed two historic Mideast peace agreements and the Journal had a small corner denoting this amazing achievement, while the bulk of the front page was devoted to a story of two women who made a tile mural in their backyard. Come on Journal, be fair! SS
WITH SO many people needing jobs soon, I suggest large corporations replace their automated voice recordings and online chatting with real, live English-speaking people. Give us a one-stop solution to what we’re calling about, not a 45-minute runaround. Corporations could help the unemployed and improve their customer service at the same time. JC
DOWNTOWN ABQ is supposed to be the center of government and business. Quit building two- and three-story apartments on vacant lots. Encourage tall building construction, 15 to 20 stories for business. Allow apartments on the perimeter. Stop the alcohol-fueled terrorist environment that exists now. AO