question why it was in ….

question why it was in our community paper (Sept. 29).

No one sterilizes children or casts multiple votes. The 2020 election was recounted and recounted, and all court case challenges were lost. It is time to understand that Trump lost. Trump’s legacy is that he is the only president to incite an insurrection and steal classified top secret documents.

Spewing hate by calling the other side socialists, while the right is banning the diary of Anne Frank and rewriting history and not teaching slavery or Jim Crow or the Holocaust in schools is the height of hypocrisy. If you love America, the Constitution and the rule of law, there is no other choice but to turn your back on MAGA ideas.

The right has banned abortions and is forcing 10-year-olds to have babies and mothers are dying; that is not prolife that is pro birth. Prolifers care about the mother and don’t want their children shot up in schools. Education and childcare get funded, all of which the Republicans voted against.

The right wants Social Security and Medicare to be dismantled. It wants to defund the FBI. It wants to choose for you who you can marry, what you can read and the God that you pray to. These are not the values that America was founded on.

Adrianne Rosenfeld Mutual 14 Editor:

I am again appalled and disappointed by the newspaper’s choice to give voice to the divisive actions and words put forth by the LW Republican Club’s ad. It also promoted the sale of the white crosses, that had political undertones.

Last week, it ran an ad (Sept. 29) that was offensive to me, and full of lies. This is not the forum in which to refute all the claims in the ad, but they’re misleading at best. Everyone has the right to their own beliefs, but this ad was divisive and does not encourage tolerance and inclusion. Part of your role is to be responsible about what information is put out there, encouraging unity, not this kind of thing that just makes the divide even wider. Put simply, it is damaging to our overall culture and adversely affects the way the outside world sees our community.

Lastly, it makes those of us who have other opinions feel like we aren’t welcome here. I love living here, with people of different faiths, backgrounds, races and colors. But, when I drive into the gates of my home, I cringe when I see the large political flags flying (I know they are “allowed,” but some of them are downright offensive), local political signs lined up and white crosses everywhere. To say nothing of the door hanger I found this morning, courtesy of the LW Republican Club.

Please do better.

Gina Kano Mutual 15 Editor:

As Democrats who live in Leisure World, we value getting along with our neighbors. The paid political advertisement by the Republican Club (Sept. 29) was duplitious and replete with inflammatory and scary language. It is an insult to think that they think residents of LW would believe such nonsense. It speaks more about those who wrote the advertisement than the Democrats. Do you think it is OK to defame and make false claims about one’s political opponent? As a citizen, it doesn’t matter who you are, a lie is a lie. This kind of language doesn’t bode well with anybody, whether you are a Republican or Democrat.

Ordie Kim, Mutual 7 Kathy Nadeau, Mutual 1 Editor:

Touché to Suzanne Dunwell for her excellent comments (Sept. 29) regarding the cancellation of battery drop-off. She presented a logical suggestion to remedy that, for I guarantee people will be throwing dead batteries into dumpsters.

Her last paragraph brings to mind the article by the GRF president that most seniors are not really on a fixed income (Sept. 22). How wrong. Many retired residents here on Social Security get a fixed check—no overtime, no bonuses. Yet, there are hikes almost weekly on each grocery item, hikes on gas prices daily and on our monthly utility bills. Orange County property is appreciating, so our property values are appreciating, thus our property taxes are going up. Our assessments here go up annually. Major considerations are the amount of a person’s salary upon retirement and how long have he or she has been retired. We are taxed on IRA withdrawals. Now, where is that approximate $150 the president says we have left?

The stripping away of amenities that make the retirement years easier—whether one is healthy and active, slowed from age, dealing with major chronic illnesses or perhaps in need of mobility aids—is not lost on us and does matter.

Lynn Alper Mutual 2