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Lee not the reply
for Oakland mayor
Re: “Leaders courting Bay Space progressive for mayor” (Web page A1, Nov. 16).
Barbara Lee has served us nicely as a consultant.
So did Ron Dellums. He was not an efficient mayor, and I don’t suppose Lee could be both. It’s time to discover a robust new chief centered on Oakland’s many points, one who has the vitality to guide Oakland.
There are different candidates in addition to Lee who’ve the integrity to do that. Let’s help one in all them.
Judith Ubsdell
Oakland
RFK Jr. might flip again
clock to earlier than vaccines
Re: “Trump picks RFK Jr. to guide Dept. of Well being and Human Companies” (Web page A1, Nov. 15).
Do we would like vaccine-denier Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to move HHS? I don’t suppose so.
Most individuals within the nation now haven’t any reminiscence of residing with childhood communicable ailments, however not me. I suffered by measles, rooster pox, mumps and rubella as a result of there have been no vaccines for these throughout my childhood.
Nevertheless, I did miss the worst scourge of all — polio. Each winter throughout the early Nineteen Fifties my mom lived in concern that I’d contract polio and find yourself paralyzed or in an iron lung. She went door to door yearly gathering for the March of Dimes supporting analysis for a vaccine. When the Salk vaccine got here out once I was 6 years outdated, she had me on the well being division ASAP for the shot.
So, do we actually wish to return to pre-vaccine days? If we don’t be taught from historical past, we’re doomed to repeat it.
Peggy Moyers
Oakland
Cruelty towards migrants
replaces compassion
Re: “We should be taught from our historical past, reject Trump ‘mass deportation’” (Web page A6, Nov. 7).
California state Sen. Josh Becker warns President-elect Donald Trump’s deliberate mass deportation “ is a harmful thought with potential to tear aside households, disrupt communities and inflict lasting trauma.”
In 1954, throughout Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, “Operation Wetback” was performed. Over 1 million Mexicans had been deported again to Mexico after having come to our border in search of work. Navy-style techniques had been inflicted on these immigrants by Border Management, and the trauma this inhabitants skilled nonetheless reverberates to today.
Most Individuals are descendants of immigrants. Take into consideration what a round-up and separation of your personal household would appear and feel like. Furthermore, nobody leaves house until their very survival is at stake. Take into consideration why your forebears left their nation of origin.
Sadly, compassion has gone out the window and cruelty has changed it.
Sharon Brown
Walnut Creek
