Letters: Republican duplicity inspires Newsom’s redistricting plan
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor GOP duplicity inspires Newsom mapping ploy California s redistricting plan Newsom reveals mapping gambit Page A Aug is debatable However with the Trump administration s rapid movement toward authoritarianism it s an easier call Related Articles Letters Bill for housing near transit further threatens neighborhoods Letters No more empty promises on drug mental robustness rehabilitation Letters Only advocates of spending would bury bills costs Letters Front-page story is a celebration of economic disparity Letters Supplemental training pays dividends in the long run Masked ICE agents without IDs grab productive immigrants with no due process More than of those taken have no criminal convictions Trump manufactured crises in L A and Washington D C to bring in the National Guard This will continue with blue Oakland a viable next target Earlier he distributed billions of gallons of water from a California reservoir ostensibly as a threat to the state Authoritarian intimidation will continue for the next months until midterm House Representatives are seated We must make certain the next House is a Democratic majority or else unchecked authoritarianism will continue through We ve appealed our Democratic leaders to fight harder They have with a redistricting plan as a response to Trump s and Texas s effort to tilt the midterms I aid redistricting if Texas proceeds with its similar effort Barry Brynjulson Pleasanton Two solutions to fight back against GOP Re Bay Area requirements unity to solve its problems Page A Aug and California can t afford to allow Texas to rig Page A Aug Thank you to the East Bay Times for two pieces in the opinion section of Sunday s paper One was Russell Hancock s essay about the anticipated of the Bay Area to do great things to enrich the lives of citizens if we just work together Rather than continuing to be reactive to all the chaos and criminality coming out of the federal ruling body let s channel our outrage over Donald Trump s transgressions and be proactive in what we can do to improve the lives of people we can reach The other piece was the editorial supporting Gov Newsom s plan to embark on our own redistricting in California if Texas follows through with its devious plan California s plan would only go into effect if California voters allow it and Texas continues its gerrymandering I agree that it s time for such extreme actions when Trump s administration is running roughshod over our laws our rights and our democracy Jean Olds Dublin Unseemly redistricting needed to counter Texas President Trump and Texas Republicans believe the Republicans cannot hold the House in the midterm elections so they are cheating to win by redrawing Texas congressional districts outside of a census year There is no umpire who can prevent the cheating in this political meeting because the Supreme Court has given Trump immunity for the cheating When there is no umpire in a encounter the squad that is being defeated through cheating has no option but to cheat themselves or concede defeat However the running of our country is no event and to concede defeat is to concede that this is no longer a democracy but a place where a minority can rule through cheating Unseemly as it is California Democrats have no choice but to counter Texas Republicans cheating and thereafter try to enact a national law requiring fair Congressional districts everywhere Jay Chafetz Walnut Creek Trump s appeasement based on bad precedent Re European leaders to join Zelenskyy at meeting in D C Page A Aug As I listen to Donald Trump prattle on about Ukraine I am reminded of when Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain met with another dictator and decided on the fate of a free nation under threat After surrendering the Sudetenland to Hitler s demands Chamberlain blandly declared he brought peace in our time World War II started the next year Churchill s prescient comment You were given the choice between war and dishonour You chose dishonour and you will have war was borne out tragically I hope Zelenskyy will resist Trump s calls for concessions to a naked invasion of his country and I hope Europe and concerned Americans will oppose Trump s appeasement and the dismembering of Ukraine Russia can and must be prevented from this conquest of a free nation Failure to do so will only increase the likelihood of future aggressions and endanger world peace Roger Wood Fremont Preconditions would have doomed talks Re Trump bows to Putin s approach No ceasefire deadlines or sanctions Page A Aug That no ceasefire deadlines or sanctions emerged from the Putin-Trump peace talks does not indicate Donald Trump was duped or failed in the talks If all sides insist on non-negotiable positions and nothing shifts what s the point of holding talks Russia which now holds the power in this proxy war is defeating Ukraine on the battlefield Ukraine can fight on suffering more devastation and certain battlefield defeat or as two-thirds of Ukrainians now want it can seek a negotiated settlement Vladimir Putin was smart enough to realize that an unconditional ceasefire is not tenable but that other terms are Trump is also smart enough to know neither economic sanctions nor deadlines have been effective Thus Putin and Trump talked It is the first step toward peace It is going to take time effort and patience to come to a settlement That s how war-ending talks function Eleanor Levine Oakland
