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Vote sure on Prop. 31
to ban flavored tobacco

My daughter is useless. Gasping futilely for breath to fill her tobacco-ravaged lungs, her life ended painfully. In the meantime, the tobacco corporations, these conscienceless purveyors of illness, incapacity and dying, proceed to use our authorized system, in search of to proceed their pernicious sale of this lethal drug. Their aim? Revenue. Every greenback of which involves them wrapped in human distress.

You, as a California voter, have an opportunity to strike again in opposition to this conscienceless behemoth. Voting sure on Proposition 31 places a stone in our sling to battle this ravaging Goliath. It denies the tobacco corporations the suitable to promote flavored tobacco to seduce and poison our folks.

My stunning, blue-eyed daughter is useless. Please do that in her reminiscence.

Philip Wasserman
Nice Hill

Biden’s Sept. 1 speech
was aggrieved, divisive

President Biden’s speech on Sept. 1 was actually not a unifying speech however a dividing speech.

He by no means talked about China, crime, the southern border, fentanyl and the massive one — inflation. However he did point out MAGA 13 occasions.

He at all times appears so indignant when he makes a speech. He’s by no means uplifting in any method. As a  matter of truth, the Democratic Social gathering at all times appears so sad. They’ve the Home, the Senate and Biden is their president. They need to be very blissful campers. They’ve complete management.

Cathy Ledbetter
Newark

McCarthy in no place
to demand paperwork

Kevin McCarthy ought to go shinny up a rope.

His calls for that the Division of Justice and the FBI hand over Mar-a-Lago materials are baseless. They don’t have to offer him “squat.”

He’ll discover out all about it when it comes up in briefs when he’s indicted for his cowardly actions on Jan. 6. He and his mouthpiece Jim Jordon can learn it collectively.

J.D. Blair
Walnut Creek

Vote for Democrats,
not insurrectionists

Re. “Biden: MAGA loyalists a risk,” Web page A1, Sept. 2:

Your proper to a free and truthful election is on the poll this November. Our forefathers fought for our freedom to self-rule and not using a tyrant working the nation. Now the MAGA Republicans wish to take us again to tyranny.

They not imagine in free and truthful elections as a result of they’re within the minority. They cheat by gerrymandering voting districts and proscribing voter entry. In lots of states, they’re making an attempt to elect MAGA candidates to be Secretary of State after which tilt future election ends in their favor.

These extremists had already tried to overthrow our authorities in the course of the Jan. 6 rebel. That was only a warm-up.

Save the suitable to vote in free and truthful elections. Vote Democratic this November and inform all of your family and friends to do the identical. Don’t let our forefathers down; it’s solely a democracy if we will maintain it.

Sandy White
Fremont

Ranked-choice voting
ranges taking part in discipline

Re. “Peltola beats Palin, wins Home particular election in Alaska,” Web page A3, Sept. 1:

The East Bay deserves credit score for the Democratic victory in Alaska final week as a result of we actually began the ranked-choice voting modernization pattern now crossing the nation from Maine to Alaska.

With RCV, Democrats and minority candidates are profitable in opposition to “massive cash” Republicans. We should always hope to encourage Joe Biden’s social gathering to make RCV modernization a No. 1 aim. Time is brief. The mid-term election is close to, and our political enemies might get management of the U.S. authorities once more.

I hope and pray that Bay Space progressives will make it identified that RCV voting machines for each state, earlier than 2024, needs to be the aim of each sensible candidate. We don’t want one other right-wing takeover.

Sennet Williams
Berkeley

Change incumbents
to cleanse nation

President Biden’s “save our soul” speech was a determined try by a 50-year, lifer politician to persuade us that each Republican working for workplace have to be changed by a Democrat in any other case our nation is doomed.