This is another good day. It is one in which everywhere you drive you see signs for Kamala and Walz. That is except in Sun City where signs are not allowed. They are the point of a “Notice of Violation.” Ultimately, if the signs do not disappear, even from within your home in your window, the threat is heightened. The last notice tells you the Sun City HOA will send someone into your home to remove the sign(s) from your window(s). Of course, they must have a police officer with them, or they would be in violation of your private residency.
All that aside, I have to say that the rest of the country is waking up to the threat that is Trump and Vance and their Project 2025 program to disassemble the foundation of our democratic republic. November 5 is just around the corner. Everyone has to do what they are physically capable of doing to make this election count in huge numbers. People who listen exclusively to right-wing programs are unaware that our economy is great. Young people are engaged in fighting for freedom for women’s body autonomy. Also, as Harris recently said to a Times reporter, “I’m in favor of the Second Amendment and I’m in favor of assault weapons bans, universal background checks, red flag laws.” Both she and Tim Walz, her running mate, are gun owners. “These are just common sense.” It is time to use the power of your vote.
By the way, flags are allowed in Sun City.
Gail Talbot
Sun City resident
Stop! – PLEASE JUST STOP
I’d like you to think back to when you were young. Did you ever hear your parents argue politics with friends, family, or neighbors? Sure, they discussed with each other, but they kept their opinions private. I grew up with the guidelines of “never discuss politics nor religion.” I’m sure you did, too. I wonder why now do you think that it is okay to voice your opinions to people you have never met and what makes you think your opinions are the only ones that are correct? No matter how much you scream at me in opinions pages, or at friend’s gatherings you are Not going to influence who I vote for – never. I have my own ideas and my own opinions. I have my own free thinking and I will vote for whomever I want. You will not influence me by calling me uninformed, stupid, or uncaring. You get your information from the same places I do – media. The media gives opinions now, not the news like it did when we were growing up. The current events were read as said. Not torn apart sound bite by sound bite, and it is your job to listen and to decipher what is really truth and what is sensationalized and then make your own decisions. We are fortunate enough to live in a country of free speech and free thinking. I don’t “Hate” one candidate or the other. I just prefer one over the other, but I will survive just like we have for centuries with whichever one wins the contest. I am privileged to make up my own mind as to whom I vote. Please stop stepping on that privilege. Your opinion is just that; an opinion and everyone has one. Keep yours to yourself.
Debbie Hughes
Sun City resident
Joan Davis…who is stupid? Have you read Kamala’s tax plan? Increased taxes, taxes on unrealized capital gains. What if you pay on those gains and they do not happen? Do you think the government is going to reimburse you? She wants to get rid of medical debt, student loan debt, give $25,000 for down payment on first time house buyers, raise child tax credit. All good thing but who is going to pay for this? This will increase inflation. How many times does Trump have to say he had nothing to do with Project 25. Because of tax laws this Think Tank cannot have who created Project 25 cannot use political people to help develop it. A Federal price setting will ruin the country. Cuba, Venezuela and Russia have tried it but look at their country. It ALWAYS fails. Billionaire John Paulson said he would pull his money out of the market if Harris wins the election and go into cash and gold. She has never answered the question on how she is going to fix the economy. Do you know? Her economic plans will have raging economic implications. All the things she plans on fixing she helped create!
J.P. Morgan
Sun City resident
Nobody can give you freedom. You will never find people from the past who have a model for how to achieve freedom. No politician has the answers on how to achieve freedom. Certainly not Trump who says, “only I can fix this for you.”
“You can be rebels in your own time,” as said by Timothy Snyder. We have to continue to look toward the future, with a positive attitude as we work toward our freedoms with moral strength and fortitude. We have to strive to keep a country that adheres to the rule of laws.
Since 1980 the Republican Party has forged an attempt to suppress the right to vote. Currently, in an atmosphere of the women’s right to bodily autonomy, they have added another threat to women. In 2006 in Indiana the first voter ID laws were passed which suppressed the vote. Now women, about 34 percent, would have to find their original birth certificate and then apply to the proper agency to make their married name their legal name, in order to vote, under Trump’s “Safe Vote” act. Trump told the house to shut down the government if they do not accept this act.
Women have become joyous warriors rebelling against these attempts to erase them.
Gail Talbot
Sun City resident
