Hoping Trump is soon to be a dead fish
A lot of us are mourning the death of Dan Evans, our former three-term governor and U.S. Senator, who famously once declared, “I’d rather cross the political aisle than cross the people.”
This is what he had to say about Donald J. Trump in his 2021 autobiography: “Today, Republicans who value the rule of law and revere the truth are locked in a struggle with ‘Donald Trump Republicans.’”
That’s a misnomer if there ever was one.
Donald J. Trump is not a Republican. He is a populist — arguably the most extraordinary populist in American history. Huey Long was a piker compared to Trump, who against all odds got himself elected Senator of Louisiana. Then he proceeded to create a cult of personality based on our darkest fears and deepest resentments, fueled by bizarre conspiracy theories and bald-faced lies — notably the notion that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
My hope is that by 2024, Trump will be like last week’s dead fish in the garbage pail.
Bill Peavey
Humptulips
Westport golf course should be denied
The strain we have put on planetary systems is well known and the climate crisis is one of the results. Yet pundits for a golf course at Westport Light State Park and the city of Westport, seem unconcerned about the many unintended outcomes of installing a new golf course in the park.
Chemistry used on the course will equal 86,000 pounds per year. It will use 500,000 gallons of water a day during dry months. Even with Best Management Practices, leaching of chemistry will occur of up to 10%. Studies done by the golf industry indicate that leaching over 1% will cause algal blooms in adjacent waters.
Best Management Practices are lauded by the golf industry as the answer to chemistry leaching, but they are at best, mitigation strategies that allow the industry to go from worse to better.
Recently the city of Westport Shoreline Management Act includes language that would allow the golf course indicating the use of Best Management Practices.
The park currently provides flood resilience for the city, ensures clean drinking well water, provides habitat for flora and fauna, and wildlands for humans to enjoy. Gentrification will likely tax out existing residents. Traffic for championship events will overwhelm all road systems beyond Aberdeen. Where’s the city management plans for these outcomes?
Leave the park as it is, beautifully wild and accessible to all. It’s the most visited park in Washington with over 500,000 people a year. Aren’t those vacationers and their dollars enough?
Meghan Anderson
Grayland
Vote yes on I-2109, and pay less?
Sounds great until you see the facts.
It’s more like — vote yes and the ultra rich pay less. Working families get fewer services.
Services will need a new funding source so, working families will pay more.
Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, and his mega-millionaire friend Brian Haywood want you to vote yes. They don’t want to pay a capital gains tax on Wall Street profits over $250,000, surely, they can afford that. How many folks do you personally know who are even in the stock market?
This tax on the ultra wealthy, helps fund K through 12 education, childcare, school construction and early learning. If this tax goes away, so do these services and your working family will pay.
Please vote no on I-2109.
Deb Wilson
Aberdeen
