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Harris a danger
to private insurance

Your editorial praising Kamala Harris (“Kamala Harris will strengthen Biden’s presidential quest,” Aug. 12) failed to mention her prior support for “Medicare for All.”

My wife and I are on Medicare and also have private insurance as a retiree from my company. We have worked hard all our lives to have our insurance, and would not vote for someone as thoughtless as Harris. How can we trust someone like her as President, should anything happen to Biden?

Tom Matthews
Alamo

Praise for speaking up
about Black Lives Matter

I very much appreciated the op-ed by the Rev. Paulson Mundanami in the August 12 East Bay Times (“Catholic Church’s silence on Black Lives Matter is deafening“).

No matter what kind of organization one is in — religious, business, academic, social — it takes courage to address the uncomfortable truths about racist practices and attitudes. Father Paulson has that kind of courage and we are all fortunate to have him in our community.

Dan Safran
Pleasant Hill

Our democracy facing
unprecedented attack

During the past three years, we have witnessed an internal attack on democracy like none other in the history of the United States. The efforts have escalated in recent weeks, exemplified both by Marc Thiessen’s unsubstantiated opinion piece arguing against voting by mail (“Mail-in vote failures could disenfranchise millions this election,” Aug. 9), and the new postmaster general’s broadscale assault on the very institution he is supposed to lead.

As to the former, it disappointed me to see the East Bay Times carry without question Thiessen’s op-ed full of falsehoods. With respect to the latter, it is incumbent upon every member of society to protect the Postal Service. It is one of the few federal agencies founded by our Constitution.

Slowing service, removing automated mail sorters, charging states full freight for each ballot (rather than the bulk rate) and all other efforts to destroy it must not be tolerated.

Melanie Proctor
El Cerrito

Politicizing USPS
threatens democracy

President Trump and his followers have a lot of nerve saying that with mail-in voting this election will be the most fraudulent and rigged, “like nobody’s ever seen.” This from the Republican Party which has been rigging elections for decades with district gerrymandering, voter suppression, closing polling stations in minority districts and spreading fake news and false information.

Now, Trump has even politicized the post office. This can’t be good for American democracy.

Frank Grygus
San Ramon

Put tax returns
on debate table

In having fair debates in the upcoming presidential elections, one of the criteria should be “all cards on the table” as they say in poker. If I were Joe Biden, I would make it clear that there will be no debate unless the showing of both parties’ tax returns is presented.

Jack Gayle
Castro Valley

Trump’s Biden
attack misplaced

Re. “Trump claims Americans will have to learn Chinese if Biden triumphs,” Aug. 12:

Aside from this being a ridiculous statement, one of the flaws in his argument is blaming “China for failing to contain the spread of coronavirus and concealing information about the disease in its early stages.” Trump is the one who dissolved the pandemic task force of the CDC in 2018 and pulled the United States out of the World Health Organization during the pandemic. He wants to send our children back to school and restart professional sports – still too soon. Concealing information? How about Trump telling us it will just magically go away in April when it gets warmer?

Jim Cauble
Hayward