Still no on Farrington
When I wrote a letter recently to allow the voting public to get a good look at the real Anthony Farrington, candidate for Lake County District Attorney, I had no idea at the time of just how low he would be willing to go in order to satisfy his insatiable appetite for political office.
When I read Farrington’s response, my first thought was that this isn’t a letter, but a menu. The special of the day is red herring with a side order of Farrington word salad. He blathers on about things that are meaningless and tries even harder to make his civil law practice sound like it somehow qualifies him for DA. He still hasn’t accepted my challenge and provide a list of the criminal trials that he has completed through jury verdict. Getting a plea bargain in a drunk in public case, as he proudly lists, is not a qualification for District Attorney.
He speaks of the irony of someone in my profession being concerned with the outcome of an election that would have a substantial impact on public safety. Someone with any level of criminal experience at all would understand the importance of the bail industry in guaranteeing that defendants are held accountable to show up for their court proceedings. Apparently this very important element of the criminal justice system has been lost upon Anthony Farrington, a family law attorney. Maybe they didn’t cover that in his online law school.
Farrington has demonstrated a new low in seeking an office that should never be made political by either candidate. I admire District Attorney Susan Krones for the reasons that she is not politically motivated and she has made a conscious decision to commit her entire adult life to public safety as opposed to her opponent who dances around for political and financial gain. No amount of threats or frivolous lawsuits from Farrington will prevent me from sharing my concern regarding the safety of Lake County. Do not be fooled by his misuse use of words like “prosecute” and “quasi-criminal”. Only the District Attorney or her deputies are able to prosecute criminal cases. Anyone with even a bare minimum level of criminal law experience would know better.
Again I issue my challenge to Farrington to provide a list of criminal cases that he has taken to jury trial and seen through to a verdict. It shouldn’t take long.
—Rob Brown, Kelseyville
Putin’s Republican Apologists
“There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin.” — Mike Pence, the defeated former vice president and assassination target of the Donald Trump Death Cult on January 6, 2021
Pumpkin-headed former president and Putin puppet-for-life Donald Trump is a political dead man walking in 2024, just like in 2020.
Now excuse me if you will for my momentary urge to smash pumpkins with a wooden baseball bat, just like Eli Roth bashed in Nazi noggins as Staff Sergeant Donny Donowitz “The Bear Jew” in Quentin Tarantino’s World War II era cinematic masterpiece “Inglourious Basterds,” but traitor Trump and his non-stop neo-Nazi nonsense calls for a response.
No matter how late Mike Pence is to the democracy party, I suppose it’s better late than never that deranged Donald’s former lap dog Pence is showing some patriotism these days, as opposed to the pro-Putin propaganda pushed by the GOP during the four years of the failed, far right fascist Trump regime.
Just another reason why I (as an unapologetically partisan Democrat and enthusiastic participant in Operation Good Trouble) will be voting for Mike Pence for president in the 2024 California presidential primary. I’ll be voting to re-elect President Joe Biden in the 2024 general election of course.
— Jake Pickering, Arcata
Democratic alliances world wide have been strengthened
In the last week or so, the Lake County Record-Bee published two more opinion pieces by Byron York, a writer for an extreme right-wing website. One article was titled, “The (continuing) border crisis under Biden.” The other was titled, “Has Biden’s presidency been transformed?” Both commentaries are worthy of a response.
As most readers would acknowledge, there hasn’t been a crisis at the Mexican border since the Trump administration carried out their inhumane, diabolical policy of stealing babies and children from asylum-seeking parents and then sending them out to foster parents without keeping any records of where and with whom they were sent.
One of the most memorable moments of that crisis was documented by a photo of First Lady, Melania Trump, wearing a jacket with an inscription emblazoned on it, saying, “I really don’t care. Do U ?” as she embarked with her husband to visit the cages where the children were being held.
In contrast, Biden, in his first ‘State of the Union’ address last week, received enthusiastic, bi-partisan applause as he outlined details of how he was securing the border and fixing the immigration system.
In York’s second article he rhetorically asks whether or not Biden’s presidency has been transformed with the onset of the war in Ukraine. The answer is that the most recent and important transformation of the U.S. presidency occurred in the Nov. 2020 election when America decided to dump Trump, a sycophant of Putin, in favor of a super qualified politician who had years of valuable experience as a senator and vice-president.
By electing Biden, the American nation became transformed as it disentangled itself from Trump, who had been impeached twice for autocratic criminal behavior.
Both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union have been rejuvenated; thanks to the overtures from newly elected Biden. Democratic alliances world wide have been strengthened and are working in unison against the growing autocratic trends in world politics which have reached a flash point in Ukraine, a place that had been bullied by Trump and now, much more seriously, by Putin.
— Dennis Purcell, Kelseyville
