Stop Clinton
Hillary Clinton said on CNN that the primary is “already done, in effect,” and “there’s no way I won’t be” the nominee. However, California alone has almost twice the delegates needed to push Sanders ahead of Clinton.
I would like to urge anyone who was considering voting in the Republican primary to consider voting in the Democratic primary, now that the Republican nomination is decided, and I would like to urge them to vote for Bernie Sanders to stop Clinton from taking the nomination, and possibly, the presidency.
Sanders has so much more to offer conservatives than an alternative to Clinton:
-His state, Vermont, has some of the most liberal gun laws and some of the least crime. He’s been slammed in the primary for being “pro gun,” because he understands the important role guns play in our country. He also opposes suing law abiding gun sellers for gun crimes.
-He is the head of the Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee, passing more legislature to support veterans than any congressional representative in the last 30 years.
-He respects the hardest workers in this country, from factories to farms to mines to schools and hospitals.
-He’s genuine and humble. He takes no corporate money and his largest campaign contributors are veterans.
-He opposes harmful trade agreements and other mechanisms that encourage taking business and jobs out of the country, like TPP, NAFTA, etc.
-He is explicitly endorsed by some conservatives, such as Asher Edelman, Ron Unz and Tom Cotton.
-Known as “Amendment King,” he’s used to working with all parties to get the right things done.
-His economic policies, while labeled “socialist,” are fairly in line with, or even more generous to the wealthy than those of Eisenhower, one of our greatest Presidents, and a Republican. Eisenhower taxed the wealthiest people and corporate profits at levels of 80-90 percent, but spent the revenue wisely on infrastructure, such as the freeway system, ushering in an era of prosperity and growth.
Monday, May 23 was the last day to (re)register in time for the primary. Early voting has already started.
Only those registered “NPP” or Democrat can vote in the Democratic primary this year — NOT Republican, Independent, Green, Whig, etc. You can walk in to the registrar, register, vote early in person, re-register and leave, all in the same day, if you like.
Show Clinton that California’s vote DOES matter!
Sara Brucker, Cobb
A sad truth
Today’s medical providers are more interested in not getting sued then “doing no harm” to their patients.
A few months ago they cut off pain meds to most of their patients for few of being sued for death caused by misuse of pain relieving drugs that have been used for over 100 years. They are the same as the incompetent talking heads who deliver most of this nation’s important information without fact checking for truth in any depth what they broadcast.
Profit first.
The truth of the matter has never been exposed as it put light on a failure of the leadership, mostly the conservative right members who have little or no amount of care for the needy in this nation. Their constant road blocking of funds and to never raise taxes to correct the needs for anyone but the richest 1 percent of this nation.
If they did care one tiny bit, they would know and understand that those folks mostly in need of pain medication are the elderly. The same elderly who are barely living on enough funds to eat properly, gain the medical care they need, and pay for those expense’s, such as Elec., Phone, Heat, Insurance, etc.
For vast numbers of those same folks, they have now had to resort to selling their pain meds to those in the black market, so to speak, who use or resell them as a recreational type of drug. That also goes for medical cannabis that is now available in many states.
This causes those who really need the level of pain relief from just plain aging as well as medical difficulties, to put that need second, to just staying alive in reasonable comfort.
Let’s not forget the rental market and its increase for decent housing.
Those who discount the above should feel a fair amount of shame for being blind to those facts. I have to wonder how many citizens have contacted their leadership at every level of government to expose these facts and to demand adjustments to relieve this new added suffering their elderly parents and other relatives of this immoral situation.
Another sad truth is the elderly are also being victimized by younger folks in their party hardy time of life by approaching the elderly and offering them money for their meds, as well as breaking into their homes to get them. Many of these are not strangers but often younger family members.
Taking an aspirin will not relieve this truth.
Jim Hall,Clearlake Oaks
