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the primitive areas of California. Perhaps the government should provide severe penalties, rather than rewarding PG&E with dictatorial control over who does and doesn’t get power, for failing to care for the power lines. Jim Smith Paradise
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It’s barbaric we have people locked outside in freezing rain. It’s shady and perhaps illegal that Chico police decided, during the first freezing rain, to institute a zero-tolerance policy on sleeping beneath the awnings of public buildings. It’s outrageous we elected a liberal supermajority on the City Council and still have the laws, police and administration of a government hostile to houseless people. We are in a housing crisis. We need legal camping sites immediately. Harassment and arrests don’t aid the situation and are a drain on city resources; so we need to trade in police officers for social workers. Ultimately, the City Council needs to get out of a backward neoliberal mentality and leverage financial resources to directly provide housing where the private sector has been falling short. Addison Winslow Chico
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december 12, 2019
Editor’s note: For more on this subject, see Ashiah Scharaga’s report on page 8.
Two on a letter Re “Retort time” (Letters, by Ray Estes, Dec. 5): I couldn’t agree more with Ray Estes’ assessment of the president’s dictatorial tendencies. We are at a tipping point. The current administration represents a distinct threat not just to the United States, but to the habitability of this planet. The corruption that Trump displays, however, should be familiar with anyone following American politics. He has certainly brought it up a notch, stacking his cabinet with billionaire after billionaire. The uncomfortable truth is that Obama did similar things with more subtlety. His cabinet was hand-picked by Citigroup, one of many examples of his capitulation to
the robber barons of the 21st century. Obama did nothing to curb corporate power. He sold out the working class, people like me, who believed in him. This set the stage for Trump, who campaigned as a fake populist. The antidote for this? Nominate a true populist. We will not defeat Trump with another standard, corporatefriendly Democrat. We already tried that, and it resulted in the horrific situation we find ourselves in. If voter turnout is high, we will win. Who can inspire a mass mobilization of voters? Joe Biden? Pete Buttigieg? Amy Klobuchar? Unlikely. Give Bernie a second look. Happy holidays. Patrick Spielman Chico
I can appreciate Mr. Estes’ need to call people names because he lost the election, but I will tell him that he may need to refrain from telling us that we are “poorly educated.” I am beyond baffled that you can honestly say that about millions of people in this great country. The fact is you and the rest of the Democrats are in for another cry fest like the last time you lost. You see, none of your tries to unseat this president has worked and it is really getting to be pathetic that you and your party keep spending money chasing your tail. I, unlike you, can refrain from calling you uneducated. But, who knows, maybe you are. To be honest, that does not mean a thing to me; it does not take an education to see how messed up the Democrats are. I mean, if you have any investments, which I assume smart people do, you will attest that Trump is great for you. Travis Smith Biggs
Editor’s note: Mr. Estes’ reference to “poorly educated” people refers to praise Trump gave to certain constituents during a 2016 rally in Nevada.
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