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Editor: When, oh please, please will Jada Brotman put out a cookbook! I am the first to admit that I am not a cook, I even have special dispensation from my book/gourmet meal group to just bring chips and dip (self-defense, I’m sure) yet I love Jada’s column and I always find myself cutting out her recipes. I’m not saying I ever cook them, but they do inspire me to think about it, which in my case is amazing enough. Jada’s columns are witty, the food, even just in print, is mouthwatering and I would love to have all the recipes in one easyto-find book instead of spilling willy nilly off the shelf. I can’t possibly be the only Jada fan out there. Come on, if we make enough noise perhaps she’ll cave. Most of the work is already done, please Jada, your fans are hungering. If Amy Stewart can do it you can too. Lauri Rose, Bridgeville
Editor: Bass supporters like to make a big deal out of the fact that Kerrigan remotely attended 12 of 416 Eureka City Council meetings while he worked on a Democratic Presidential campaign in 2008. Voters may need reminding as to just how big a deal it was to many of us, after eight horrific years under George Bush, that we elect a democrat as our next president! Of course, just four years previous to this Virginia Bass was flying off in Rob Arkley’s private jet to attend George Bush rallies. The value and principles of candidates is what we should focus on, and these actions alone paint a distinct difference. Chris Kerrigan will advocate for average voters every day he is on the board of supervisors. Virginia Bass made it clear whose interests she looks out for when she appointed the owner of the Downtowner Motel to the planning commission! Wesley DeMarco, Eureka
Editor: Every time, Virginia Bass has run on the exact same platform: promising more jobs and bragging about endorsements from political connections. But what about her Editor: actual record? I really appreciate the hard work and Bass spoke out against big-box stores careful reporting that went into all of your — but Rob Arkley got her to support election articles, and I want to thank Chris building a Home Depot on his (still) toxic Kerrigan, Virginia Bass and Sharon Latour waterfront Balloon Track. for taking time from their busy schedules Bass promised to pass the General to talk with the press. Plan Update — but instead threw out the Your readers are community’s input the people who and appointed make democracy campaign contribuwork, by getting tors to planning informed, by caring commission to and by voting. I am usurp the public’s proud to support a will. candidate who will She blocks the sidewalk, Bass calls herself respect and reach a democrat — but stalks the avenues and alleys out to everyone in has rushed to get ranting away with equal Humboldt — inpro-Tea Party encluding people who opportunity dorsements. read the North at the FBI and Food Not Bombs As I look Coast Journal! On around, I see more June 3, I’ll be voting In a smoky husk empty storefronts for Sharon Latour of a missing-teeth contralto and closed local in the 5th District, businesses and carrying well into because I think (coincidentally?) a the next block. she’ll stand up for Walmart built unthe environment, der shady circumShe wants you to pawn stand up for more stances. Where are her watch for her — she can’t, balanced planning, those “good jobs”? and honor the the secret police are after her, Enough is democratic process and the pawnshop guy enough. It’s time by speaking with to see results. Let’s is in on it, demanding the press. throw out Bass and her ID. Kate McClain, McKinleyville continued on
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