In 2020, elections systems were altered by courts and bureaucrats contrary to state law to be all mail-in balloting with sketchy signature verification, supposedly due to COVID. Now that the pandemic is over, this “fraud-friendly” system is locked in place. Neither those claiming fraud nor those denying it can prove anything with this system. The refusal of courts and newspapers to look at the evidence and listen to the arguments of those challenging election results does not mean they have no evidence or arguments. Sidney Powell’s guilty plea to the equivalent of jaywalking after being charged with treason does not prove what you think it does, given the abusive plea bargaining system that routinely tortures false confessions out of defendants. The newspaper hopes those of us questioning the approved narrative will one day crack and fall in line like obedient servants. Don’t hold your breath.
— Russ Neal, Huntington Beach
Senate Bill 274
Re “Enabling more willful defiance in state schools” (Oct. 20):
So let me get this straight. We already wanted to “encourage” students in grades K-6 to stay in school by not allowing extended suspension or expulsion. Now we have extended that to grades 7-12 so students can feel free to disrupt class or ignore teachers. That is what this new law signed by Newsom will allow. Have we gone completely insane? How can we expect teachers to conduct meaningful instruction under these circumstances? We know that an education is important to our children’s future employment. Let’s get this law repealed before we raise a large group of self-centered, non-interested adults.
— Hayden Lening, Claremont
California Environmental Quality Act and housing
Re “CEQA is key solution to housing woes” (Oct. 24):
I am perplexed by the continuing attacks on CEQA as an impediment to increased population density. This is an erroneous interpretation of the provisions of CEQA. But even more puzzling is that it appears those advocating higher population density are the same people that are hysterical about climate change. Is there anyone that doesn’t understand that population pressure is the primary driver of those factors that are presumed to drive climate change?
— Tim Woodington, Glendora
