Also: Minority representation | Desperation | Further study | Indigenous students | Re-evaluate ally. East Bay Times reader letters to the editor for Sept. 3, 2025.
This opinion piece lists the difficulty of getting voters to the polls for an off-year election, but this is one very special election. For one thing, voting for redistricting is almost as critical as voting for a president.
It impacts the entire nation, not just Californians.Donald Trump’s control of Congress inflicts incredible horrors upon the values of rational citizens. It is not just any off-year election, but the difference between another two years of unfettered Trump rule and the hope of lessening his influence to protect our freedoms. The most rational threat to the passage of redistricting is the moral question of supporting gerrymandering to achieve neutrality in the congressional districts after the Texas redistricting debacle. Support the redistricting because it is a prime example of the ends justifying the means. Vote “yes” as a big step toward controlling Trump. Those on the left in California who support Gov. Newsom’s gerrymander proposal in Proposition 50 apparently don’t care about minorities if the minority is Republican voters. The left will oppose voter ID, claiming it suppresses minority voters, but it will support Proposition 50 even though it actually disenfranchises voters who are Republicans and in the minority. Hypocrisy. I think Gavin Newsom is acting desperate, seeing his lifelong dream of the presidency being vaporized by President Trump. Being a Democrat politician in California is easy. Being a lifelong California Democrat politician running for president is much more difficult because the lifelong Democrat politician must now run on their record of accomplishments to lure the small percentage of swing and independent voters who will decide who will become our next president to vote for them. It seems to me that this is why Newsom is acting out with his arm-waving, ranting speeches and Trump-like tweets because he doesn’t have much in the way of accomplishments to sell. It seems to me Newsom would be better served by keeping his hands in his pockets, keeping his mouth shut and spending the next 12 months actually building a résumé of real California accomplishments to sell to the rest of the country. I am really concerned about school shootings, especially after the latest one in Minneapolis. I am also concerned about the shooter identifying as trans and receiving gender-affirming care as a minor. I have no problem with adults receiving gender-affirming care. In fact, I know transgender people, and some are my friends. However, I worry about underage people with developing bodies receiving hormone blockers and other gender-affirming drugs.It is shameful when Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, threatens to strip the state of New York’s school funding over itsI urge McMahon and her boss, President Trump, to stop defending school mascots that are degrading toward American Indian students. How much longer can we ignore women in Gaza watching their children starving to death while Israel bleeds our coffers dry? Israel is not a poor country. It has subsidized education and health care while we have neither and are shouldering a debt of over. Yet, we continue to unquestionably fund its unrelenting slaughter of innocent women and children — a disgraceful crime against humanity. At the same time, we are stripping ourselves of our First Amendment rights at the behest of this rogue nation.Asking Eric: My husband asked a young woman to travel with him to our son's houseDear Abby: I wish people would quit telling me I need to get dressedHarriette Cole: Should I tell my husband why my friend won't visit us?Why Caitlin Clark is not playing against the Valkyries Santa Clara County hoped to build 4,800 new homes with Measure A money. How did they exceed that goal by 38%? Santa Clara County hoped to build 4,800 new homes with Measure A money. How did they exceed that goal by 38%?
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