LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Warth for being there — I guess. Having to read more of the improbable statements from elected leaders as to how they intend to end homelessness is sickening. These proclamations uttered by the governor and our mayor are an insult to our intelligence.

If only they would pay attention to the reality all around them and listen to experts like Michael Mcconnell, they wouldn’t be making such fools of themselves. While the governor was indulging in his photo op, one of the largest freeway encampments I’ve ever seen was plainly visible above Interstate 5 on the Market Street overpass.

I know the governor and our mayor aren’t fools, but claiming this so-called Caltrans cleanup plan is in any way making a dent in the numbers of unsheltered homeless/street people living in our neighborhoods sure seems to be a fool’s errand.

years in Los Angeles, and much of the four pages of U-T sports on Thursday is Chargers coverage.

Pathetic. What’s next, more Dodgers coverage?

Biden pitting citizens against each other

Re “Biden challenges Senate on voting: ‘Tired of being quiet!’” (Jan. 11): President Joe Biden’s rant and rave in Atlanta last week was a total embarrassment. Among other things, Biden demanded, in a loud, threatening voice, that all Americans choose between Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis (most Americans probably can’t even identify Davis) as well as choose between John Lewis and Bull Connor (good luck on Connor’s identity as well).

When this country is already so polarized, we do not need such divisive rhetoric coming from our nation’s leader. A shameful performance indeed.

14): Joe Biden should be doing better? He is already doing better than Donald Trump by a hundred issues and miles. No one could have anticipated the new virus and to what extent it would be contagious. It was the vaccines that should have drawn his attention in January 2021, and they did.

And Biden has done plenty mandating people to get vaccinated. But the era of heightened constitutional rights has slowed progress that ordinarily would not have had controversy were it not for a myopic Supreme Court.

Another Trump audit belies the ‘Big Lie’

Re “First part of Texas’ 2020 election audit reveals few issues” (Dec. 31): Even though Donald Trump won Texas, he still demanded that an investigation into voter fraud be conducted in that state because every county didn’t vote for him and he considered that impossible.

So the Republicans told Trump, we hear and obey. Not in the whole state mind you, just the counties Joe Biden won. The result of that investigation is they found absolutely no evidence

of fraud that would have affected the results of the election.

How do you know that’s true? It was conducted by Republicans in a red state, and they released the results when they knew virtually no one would be paying attention: New Year’s Eve.

Editors should not be judge and jury of facts

Re “Why some readersubmitted Jan. 6 anniversary opinion essays were not published” (Jan. 9): Andrew Kleske states definitively: “But each essay featured at least one central argument that was just not supportable or provable or, in some cases, possible — and thus were not printable.”

Kleske made himself the judge and jury and suppressed the free speech rights of contributors.

Glad newspaper won’t print misinformation

When I sat down to read the “Your Say” (Jan. 9) regarding the insurrection, knowing that there are usually opinions I disagree with, I braced myself for any essays that tried to downplay or reframe the events of Jan. 6. I was relieved to discover that none of those essays were included.

Then I read the commentary about why some were left out. I felt compelled to send this email to thank you for doing such a good job as “bouncer” in this conversation.

I loved where it said, “Our newspaper and our nation benefit from a diversity of opinion, but not at the expense of the truth.”

This is one of the many reasons I am incredibly grateful to be a subscriber of The San Diego Union-tribune. Keep up the good work.

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