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Marleau left followers with
an aesthetic physique of labor
As a Bay Space sports activities fan for 60-plus years, I've had the pleasure of rooting for a formidable group of athletes and coaches who exude humility and integrity, together with, however not restricted to Joe Montana, Steph Curry, Steve Kerr, Bruce Bochy, Tara VanDerveer, Buster Posey and the listing goes on and on.
That being stated the retirement of Sharks icon Patrick Marleau stands out as his lengthy and illustrious NHL profession involves an in depth. Thanks, Patrick Marleau, “Mr. Shark,” to your sensible 23-year profession, most of which was spent in teal. I will probably be there after they hoist your No. 12 jersey into the SAP rafters to thanks for all the time being an incomparable position mannequin, and most of all, a category act. You may be missed by the bleeders of teal.
Barry Goldman-Corridor
San Jose
Endorsement Mahan
didn’t get tells the story
Re. “Mahan presents accountability as S.J. mayor,” Web page A6, Might 4:
It was not shocking to see The Mercury Information endorse Matt Mahan for San Jose mayor; it's, nonetheless, a disservice to the voting public.
The Mercury utterly ignores the elephant within the room: Why did Carl Guardino (hardly a “labor man”) endorse Cindy Chavez for mayor? Guardino helped Mahan win his council seat, he labored alongside Mahan when Mahan served on SVLG’s board.
One has to ask why somebody who has labored so carefully with Mahan didn't endorse his run for mayor.
The job of the subsequent San Jose mayor will probably be to work with enterprise, labor, different native governmental our bodies, the neighborhood. Just one candidate has the monitor document to take action: Cindy Chavez.
Guardino is aware of how crucial it's to have the precise particular person serve our metropolis as mayor, and that's the reason he's backing that particular person: Cindy Chavez.
Jacquie Heffner
San Jose
Arenas lacks character
and accomplishments
San Jose Metropolis Councilmember Sylvia Arenas is working for District 1 county supervisor. This after solely two years since she was re-elected.
I preserve studying she has been “combating for Santa Clara County households,” however on the entire, I don’t see that the district she represents, or town for that matter, are higher than when she took workplace six years in the past.
Of much more significance to me is the character of those that characterize our metropolis. She by no means got here out and denounced the smear marketing campaign in opposition to her opponent, Jim Zito, within the 2020 election. I’d have the next opinion of her if she’d finished so, despite the fact that I can’t listing any important accomplishments by her as a council member.
Now she doesn’t even wish to honor ending out her time period as council member. As a lifelong San Josean and resident in District 8 since 1995 I can’t vote for her.
Mark Milioto Sr.
San Jose
Overturning Roe is return,
not usurping, democracy
So, which facet of the Roe argument is absolutely anti-democratic?
The regulation, and concern, earlier than the Supreme Courtroom is Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks. Basic rights promised by the Structure aren’t topic to fashionable rule, however Justice Samuel Alito’s level in his draft opinion is that abortion isn’t certainly one of them, and till Roe, no person imagined it may be.
The precise risk to democratic norms is the left’s onslaught on the legitimacy of the Supreme Courtroom. An impartial judiciary is the guarantor of the freedoms within the Structure. Democrats ought to mirror on how Donald Trump-appointed judges turned again his bogus claims of a stolen 2020 election. The Supreme Courtroom’s job is to say what the regulation is, to not be a physique of philosopher-kings to impose progressive outcomes.
Overturning Roe gained’t usurp democracy. It is going to put the abortion debate again the place it belongs in a democracy – for voters to determine.
Gerald Giles
San Jose
Mom’s phrases may very well be
true once more on abortion
Re. “Report: Draft opinion suggests Roe to be overturned,” Web page A1, Might 3:
After I was rising up within the ’50s and ’60s, my mom had a rule for my sister and me. Earlier than she would take into account us adults, we needed to open a checking account in our personal names and earn sufficient cash for a visit to Sweden if we ever wanted to have a secure and authorized abortion.
When Roe vs Wade grew to become the regulation of the land, we believed we might now not want that safeguard in opposition to the specter of an undesirable or harmful being pregnant. Now it seems each my daughters and my granddaughter must observe my mom’s sage recommendation.
Mother knew, as girls, that my sister and I must fend for ourselves. She was proper again then, and sadly, it seems she is correct as we speak.
Nancy Mangini
Redwood Metropolis