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A vote would have proven
well being care’s pals
Assemblyman Ash Kalra’s invoice AB 1400, regardless of passing by means of each the Well being and Appropriations committees by huge margins, was not voted on by the complete Meeting. Kalra pulled the invoice saying the votes weren't there.
To my thoughts, getting the names of legislators who vote towards well being for all is worth it. We might know who our pals are within the Legislature and who succumbed to the entreaties of the drug-medical-industrial advanced.
D.J. Neyhart
Berkeley
Article lacks logic
on gun security
Applause to Steven Sainsbury for not making an attempt to restrict my potential to personal a gun just because he doesn’t like them (“Considering of shopping for a gun for self-defense? Don’t do it,” Web page A7, Feb. 3). Whereas I applaud his strategy, his logic is woefully poor.
The information he cited about different methods weapons are used have completely nothing to do with whether or not or not a gun can present a protection in your house. It solely takes one profitable use to make an actual distinction in a household’s life, no matter how different individuals might use their weapons elsewhere. The frequent sense he refers to is definitely dealt with with a gun protected to maintain it out of undesirable palms.
My favourite bumper sticker remains to be true in the present day: “When weapons are outlawed, solely outlaws can have weapons.”
John Griggs
Danville
We should cease march
towards Russia battle
The unsubstantiated allegations made by our authorities a few deliberate Russian “false flag” provocation, reported in your Friday version (“U.S.: Russian plot is pretext for invasion,” Web page A4, Feb. 4), is paying homage to the claims of Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction” made within the run-up to our disastrous invasion, which went largely unchallenged within the press. No stockpiles of “WMDs” had been ever discovered however almost 5,000 Individuals and maybe 200,000 Iraqis died. Iraq has by no means recovered and ISIS was born, which we're nonetheless combating in the present day.
We should always not escalate the navy build-up round Ukraine, nor ship extra arms and definitely not impose “pre-emptive” sanctions on Russia. We have to deescalate, not inflame tensions already dangerously excessive. We should interact in actual negotiations to guard the official safety considerations of all, assure the territorial integrity of Ukraine whereas defending the rights of the Russian-speaking inhabitants of the Donbas. The drift towards a harmful confrontation between two nuclear-armed powers have to be stopped.
Michael Dunlap
Oakland
Comedian advances delusion
of California exodus
It’s odd that the East Bay Instances, a California publication, continues to publish Loren Fishman’s “Mallard Filmore” comedian as he pushes the parable of an exodus from California (Web page B13, Jan. 27).
The very fact is, the most recent Census Bureau migration information for the ten years ended 2019 present the state misplaced 6.2 million residents to different states. That’s an annual exit fee of 1.6%, the nation’s lowest fee of residents leaving any state, only a bit forward of Texas. A newer research from the College of California discovered the proportion of individuals wanting to go away the state has remained static over the final two years; most residents nonetheless consider within the California Dream.
“Mallard Fillmore” is a font of extremist right-wing misinformation. If it walks like a duck …
Shel Holtz
Harmony
GOP assertion belies
any perception in democracy
Re. “GOP: Jan. 6 ‘official political discourse,’” Web page A1, Feb. 5:
The Republican Nationwide Committee lastly made it official. By censuring two members of their celebration for becoming a member of Democrats inspecting the Jan. 6 riots, they're actually the celebration of no. The GOP now acts extra like communist China than a democratic celebration. It’s alright to say and do what you need so long as you run it by the premier.
Occasion leaders tried to whitewash their statements and solely made it worse. They had been punishing Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for getting concerned within the “persecution of atypical residents who interact in official political discourse.” After that assertion, if anybody says the GOP believes in democracy, they're mendacity. By crossing the rubicon, they’ve additionally opened the door for non-GOP supporters to commit egregious acts of treason and sedition and declare that it’s political discourse.
Don Morgan
Harmony
2022 opening ceremony
a letdown for China
The 2008 summer time Olympics was one of many best opening ceremonies in my life. It embodied the center and soul of 5,000 years of Chinese language historical past and tradition in a 90-minute film. I used to be proud to see artwork at its best. I cried.
There was potential for this yr’s winter ceremonies. An apparent Lunar New Years Parade was changed with a letdown.
The athletes’ uniforms had been drab; notable exceptions had been from American Samoa, Columbia, and Kazakhstan. The kids’s choir was sappy and Shirley Temple scary. The newborn montage was insulting to the younger athletes; it diminished their laborious work as unimportant i.e cutesie-pie. And, the large snowflake was gaudy.
This yr’s tradition, vogue, and music had been bland, uninteresting, and mainstream. Artwork is free speech. Censorship is actual and current in China, and it's seen within the lack of fine artwork.
Jean Paulsen
Livermore