Letters! We Send Letters!
Yavapai County Democrats are actively sending letters to the editors of our local and state papers and to our national and state legislators on issues of critical importance to Democrats. Read what they have to say.
Democrats fight for EVERY Arizonan !
 
Mon May 13, 2013 7:21 PM
The Arizona Republic

EDITOR:

An editorial Friday expressed surprise with Disney’s intention to claim “El Dia de los Muertos” as its own property (“Disney’s cultural faux pas,” Opinions).

In truth, Disney’s outrageous initiative to trademark El Dia de los Muertos is perfectly consistent with contemporary American values.

Politicos, business elites, the media and other opinion makers influence popular perceptions to define everything as potentially private property to be claimed, marketed, exploited and sold to the highest bidder.

Contemporary, exaggerated individualism and crony and predatory competitive free-enterprise ideologies see precious little as sacred tradition or the community’s treasured values.

I’d guess the Disney hucksters and hustlers were taken by surprise by opposition to their intention to grab a sacred tradition as their own. But a small blow for sanity prevailed.

Let’s hope for more.

Ed Williams
Prescott




5/11/2013 9:58:00 PM
Prescott Daily Courier
Letter: Gun-carrying is getting ridiculous

EDITOR:

The other morning I was sitting in a local restaurant and a young girl walked by our booth. Noticing a large bulge in her pocket, I leaned forward in curiosity to learn it was a gun. A gun! This was a girl about 14 years of age. I wondered to myself, what is this world coming to? Does our Second Amendment give license for such a lenient display of ridiculous power? Have we sunk so low that our teenagers feel they have to carry a gun? I was appalled. Is she protecting herself against marauders, the government, the environment or whatever might get her?

Unfortunately, we the people are responsible. We have to be more conscious of the representatives we put in power. Our nation and our forefathers needed guns to protect themselves. Now we need guns to protect ourselves against guns. This is becoming a nation of who can out-arm whom, who can carry the biggest stick.

Instead of arming ourselves with guns, we should arm ourselves with knowledge, caring and responsibility. I feel ashamed.

Phyllis Meyers
Prescott



 
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      5/6/2013 9:59:00 PM
      Prescott Daily Courier
      Letter: Gun lobby should not be in control

      EDITOR:

      This letter is in response to Garry Shumann and his ideas about protecting
yourself. All of the proposals put forth in the current gun legislation, do not
restrict anyone's rights. What they do is, try to keep guns from getting into
the wrong hands.

      Background checks are a "no-brainer" and should be seen as a responsible
prerequisite for gun ownership. Eliminating assault weapons is another. It's
hard to understand people who are against common sense and are against
our president who has the courage to take on the gun lobby.

      I'm tired of having a "gun lobby" make all the rules, I'm tired of this lobby,
the NRA, scaring everyone away from common sense. The tide is turning
away from this madness, of no gun control. I applaud our president for
finally taking a stand. Talk to the parent's of the "Sandy Hook" massacre,
talk to the people in Aurora Colorado, things have to change.

      Monica White
      Prescott

    


      5/7/2013 9:57:00 PM
      Prescott Daily Courier
      Letter: All should work to save programs

      EDITOR:

      I cannot believe there are moderate-soft conservatives within our population
who are near retirement age or looking forward to retiring and are NOT
counting on Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

      If this is the case, the majority of us are on the same page; it is the elected
officials who are out of touch and not perceiving the preferences of their
constituents. Because it is the nuts and bolts of the 99-percent retirement
package in today's society, a large portion of us want to keep these
entitlements solvent now, and for generations to come, which can be
accomplished with sensible management, not by "sequester," where we
worry who gets hurt and by how much.

      Social Security was signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
on Aug. 14, 1935. President Lyndon B. Johnson, as part of his "Great
Society" program, signed Medicare into law as an amendment to Social
Security. This law established two programs, Medicare and Medicaid,
which were designed to deliver health care to the elderly and the poor
(www.UnderstandingMyMedicare.com). These three programs were
Democratic ideas and they should be protected by Democrats and anyone
else who has the will, and the voice, to defend them at any cost. There is
no smoking gun, no hair on fire; only polarization and ideological concerns
that distort strategic facts and tactical views. It seems that politics in
Washington is no longer about making deals. It is more of a systematic
agreement to oppose whatever our president tries to do, to change the
past. Remember the saying, "if you don't change the past, you are doomed
to repeat it!"

      Do you want to take on real change? We the people can do this, and not
with anger, not with retribution, but with commitment.

      Tomi Richardson
      Prescott Valley