OTHER VOICES

The choice

Your endorsement of Joe Biden demands a rebuttal (The Capital, Oct. 11).

Mishandling pandemic — President Donald Trump banned travel from China Jan. 31. Three weeks later, Feb 24, an unmasked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged people to visit San Francisco’s China town as she lunched with community leaders. No national Democrat offered policies differing from the president, ever, but have incessantly Monday morning quarterbacked.

Trump’s unprecedented success — His handling the economy, confronting China’s abuses, efforts toward resolving the Arab-Israeli friction, withdrawal from Middle East conflicts, reset of unfair agreements, and engagement with adversaries is to be acclaimed.

Trump taxes — Trump prepaid taxes of $1million for 2016 and$4.2 million for2017. The $750 was additional taxes owed, not the only taxes paid.

Planned coup — Last Friday, Pelosi introduced legislation thatwould pave the way to strip a president of his powers under the 25th Amendment. This is laying the groundwork to declare a cognitively impaired President Joe Biden incompetent and turning the presidency over to Kamala Harris. I’m no conspiracy theorist, but I believe this has been in the works since the forming of the Biden-(Bernie) Sanders unity task force. Avote for Biden is a vote for a Harris presidency.

Supreme Court — Chief Justice John Roberts saidwe do not have Obama judges or Trump judges? If Biden and Harris disagreed they would have disavowed a court-packing scheme. Court-packing will result in penumbras permitting a range of progressive initiatives found nowhere in the Constitution while having explicit rights covered by the Constitution curtailed, including both First and Second Amendment rights.

Biden winning means court-packing, curtailment of Constitutional freedoms, contrived Democrat-majority states, and a potentially damaging blow to the economy. It will not mean an end to partisanship or a reduction in tensions.

Vote for obnoxious versus a cognitively impaired coup in the making.

PETER TUTINI

Annapolis

The appeal

As a citizen and a journalist, I congratulate your editorial, “Joe Biden is the best hope for an exhausted, divided America” (The Capital, Oct. 11). I write in appreciation for the way you present that conclusion.

It is a wise decision to speak directly to the 122,403 Anne Arundel countians who voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Those of us who didn’t — 47.6% of Anne Arundel voters, as you note — hear enough preaching to our choir.

In speaking to those Trump voters, you’ve sought common ground with neighbors who well might, given your headline, close their ears, hearts and minds to your words.

Your appeals to reason, self-interest and emotion may or may not move those potential Trump voters to rethink their vote. As you acknowledge, you may well have lost them — thought I hope not — before you conclude with the argument that comes closest to all 100% of us Anne Arundel countians: Your five colleagues — our neighbors and daily companions — were murdered on the watch of a president who calls journalists “enemies of the people” as he continues apparently indifferent “again and again through violence and disaster, anger and fear, outrage after outrage.”

Gerald Fischman, your murdered editorial writer, would be proud.

SANDRA OLIVETTI MARTIN

Fairhaven

Editor’s Note: Martin is a founder and editor emerita of Bay Weekly newspaper.

‘Our Say’

It seems that you hide behind anonymity calling yourself Capital Gazette Editorial Board without identifying yourself, almost as if you are better than your customers.

Hmm, why would a “journalist” do that, being social warriors and all that goes with it? This paper has become a socialist rag and backing a Joe Biden candidacy is clearly proof (The Capital, Oct. 11). If America is divided and exhausted, it is because youwant it thatway.

Be impartial and open. Without this, you embarrass yourself and your shrinking readers.

JOHN MAYDAG

Crofton