Mailbag: Columnist got it wrong about Donald Trump
Re: “Donald Trump is no role model,” Whiteboard Jungle, Oct. 21. Brian Crosby’s column on Donald Trump not being a role model is amusing. He claims he is an “independent” but comes up as a bitter foe of Trump with nothing good to say about him.
Crosby forgets Hillary Clinton’s numerous acts of omission and commission, so I presume he wants open borders and opposes tax incentives to big business to invest and create jobs. He is not an advocate of a strong America —militarily and economically. Conflict of interest is OK; he turns a blind eye as $8 billion in the state department disappears. He is for huge influx of “refugees” from radical Islamist countries engaged in terrorism. For him it’s OK to declare “we are dead broke” and then raise hundreds of millions for a foundation by misusing official position and distributing favors. He doesn’t care if many women accuse a certain president for gross misbehavior (to put it mildly) but are callously targeted and their allegations dismissed as a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”
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Crosby ignores frequent lies and thinks bad words are more dangerous than bad actions. He condones manipulating the mainstream media, Benghazi murders, deleting thousands of emails and “extreme carelessness” in handling state matters. A fraction of similar “careless” actions got others jailed. Crosby doesn’t mention these.
Sir, that distinguishes Trump from Hillary.
Trump may not be a role model. Hillary is far from it. But Trump wants a safe, secure, strong and prosperous America — and these are the most important issues before the nation.
Yatindra Bhatnagar
Tujunga
Donald Trump: role model
Despite Mr. Crosby’s assertions to the contrary, Trump is an excellent role model for all young men and women.
Mr. Crosby opens his column by claiming that Trump “...mocks immigrants, the disabled and women.” Trump welcomes legal immigrants, respects women and mocked a heckler who happened to be disabled.
Trump didn’t “threaten to jail his opponent if he wins.” He said he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary’s erased emails.
Mr. Crosby asks, “What parents would want their child to grow up emulating Donald Trump?” I would if I had children. Who wouldn’t want a son or daughter who has created great businesses around the globe? Who wouldn’t want a son or daughter who loves America, understands that Islam is a threat to America and wants to drain the corrupt swamp of Washington?
Mr. Crosby also claims Trump has “unleashed below-the-surface racism.” This is yellow journalism; a lie meant to silence critics.
Crosby is the very image of all that he despises. He twists words into lies to mislead those who don’t read widely. He hints at the racism of Trump supporters. It was the Republican Party that was able to eliminate all references to race in federal and state law books via the passage of the civil rights bills of the 1960s. Every since that time, it has been the Democratic party which has at every turn attempted to reintroduce race back into every piece of legislation.
And Trump’s opponent? A career politician who is a proven liar, a proven failure at everything she touches, and a proven enabler of her sexual predator of a husband, and simply corrupt to the core.
Ray Shelton
Glendale
The story of our local bears
The local bears in the San Gabriels are not native to this area. The original brown and grizzly bears had long been hunted to extinction in the early 20th century. The last grizzly killed in the San Gabriels was shot in Sunland by Cornelius Johnson in November 1916, it was not a wild bear as originally thought but one that had escaped from the then-primitive Los Angeles Zoo.
In November 1933, due to an overabundance of bears in Yosemite, black bears were shipped to Southern California to reintroduce the species; seven were released in San Gabriel Canyon (over the objections of the local beekeepers), seven in Big Bear Valley and six in Santa Ana Canyon. All our local bears are descended from these “Yosemite bears.”
Living in the Foothills is a blessing, warts and all. The continuing drought has brought the bears down to our ever encroaching civilization. How do we relocate the bears; to where, who is going to do it, pay for it, and maintain them? Then what’s next, the coyotes? When the coyotes go, we will have to deal with a monstrous rodent problem. For every push, there is a shove.
If one doesn’t want to deal with bears and other canyon inhabitants, then move to the 20th floor of a mid-Wilshire high-rise, urban, sterile, animal free and soulless.
Jo Anne Sadler
Glendale
A yes vote for Measure GC
There is a bond measure that needs to be supported by voters in Glendale — Measure GC. This measure will enable Glendale Community College to maintain its excellence in preparing students to enter higher education programs at universities and colleges, to expand its vocational programs to train students for jobs in demand in our region, and to support the English as Second Language, citizenship support and basic business skills needs of immigrants to our region. The college currently has several vocational classes at its Garfield Campus. In order to minimize traffic and parking issues at the main campus, expansion of that campus would be ideal to support the vocational studies program.
I feel passionate about this measure because I attended GCC. The education I received set the course for my future in the aerospace industry, mainly at JPL. Like hundreds of thousands of others I benefited from the college and am grateful for those who supported previous tax measures that allowed the college to flourish.
Recently I completed a four-year term on GCC’s Facilities Bond Oversight Committee. I observed first-hand how the college thoughtfully, frugally, and within budget used taxpayers’ money to build and renovate the facilities as it promised the voters in 2002’s Measure G.
The state provides limited funding to construct, renovate or upgrade local community college facilities. This support primarily can come only from local property taxes.
Let us stand with those in need of the education and training Glendale Community College can provide now and in the future just like voters were there for those of us who benefited directly from the college in the past. Vote Yes on Measure GC.
Albert Hofmann
Glendale