Both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden want to destroy President Donald Trump’s good work
Not the right man for the job
Bud Kennedy’s column Sunday was one of the most alarming pieces I have read in the Star-Telegram. (1B, “Oath Keepers infiltrates Texas police”)
For the Hood County commissioners to appoint someone with dangerous, paranoid conspiracy theories to a county position is beyond reason. A county employee who propagates fears of “bloody civil war “against the federal government should be out of a government job. And the commissioners should be voted out, too.
- Steve Wesstrom, Arlington
Renegades not given their due
The Star-Telegram isn’t paying enough attention to the professional football team playing in Arlington. The XFL’s Dallas Renegades played a spirited game Sunday afternoon, and there was not a single word about the game in Monday’s paper. There were more than 18,000 people at the game and probably three or four times that many watching on TV, yet you couldn’t bother to send a writer and publish an article with statistics. I expect better sports coverage.
- Gary McCoy, Arlington
Schools not looking out
Chris Salcedo’s Sunday column should be a clarion call to us all. (5B, “Why allow Fort Worth football players to wave Mexican flag?”) To see a public school football team take the field waving the flag of another coach is a disgrace. Where was the coach and principal? Even worse is the lack of response from Fort Worth school officials. I put that down to their own realization that they have lost control of the agenda and of the schools. They should be producing productive citizens of the U.S.
Voters, remember this the next time you skip a school board election.
- Curtis Basham, Fort Worth
What the voters are saying
We need to place Tuesday’s amazing, shocking Democratic primary results in proper perspective. The outcome was less about Joe Biden winning and Sen. Bernie Sanders losing. It was more about voters sending a clear and loud message that they are angry and will not continue to tolerate a president who preaches hate, divides the nation and destroys our constitutional system of government.
We cannot take anything for granted in the post-truth era of President Donald Trump and defeating him will be an uphill battle. But I am more hopeful than I have been for quite some time.
- Richard Cherwitz, Austin
Sanders, Biden are wreckers
Being retired, I was able to vote early. I did resent being asked, “Republican or Democrat?” There must be a way to load the information into the machine so you can pick your party in privacy.
It looks like people finally woke up to what Sen. Bernie Sanders really wants: to tear this country apart. Joe Biden is not a lot better. He wants to undo every good thing that President Donald Trump has put in place.
- Nancy Williams, Fort Worth
Would sick leave really cost us?
Shall we mandate paid sick leave? Now that the lives of those who can’t miss work for illness without losing our jobs are endangered by the coronavirus, will America finally do the right thing?
Can we willfully ignore coughing health care and child care workers by declaring that businesses would suffer under such a mandate? Unlike the 21 other richest countries, America does require paid sick leave.
Given today’s Trumpian climate, I can see the U.S. putting infected low-wage workers in cages instead.
- Barbara Chiarello, Austin