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Has community given up
on controlling graffiti?
Enough! I am not an advocate for reporting my fellow residents for their dogs pooping on lawns and not cleaning up after, nor for the playing of loud music. However, I do draw the line when it comes to the out-of-control graffiti that is defacing sound walls and bridges throughout our city.
I’ve lived here all my life, and with the trash, deteriorating roads and graffiti it gives all appearances that our citizens and elected officials don’t really care anymore. Sad times indeed.
Mark Milioto
San Jose
Don’t forget dental staff
during vaccine rollout
As a practicing pediatrician in Santa Clara County, I urge the county to include dentists, dental hygienists and their staffs early in plans to vaccinate against coronavirus.
Dentists and their staffs are unappreciated essential health care providers to the community and are even more at risk than many other essential workers including other health care workers. Their work requires prolonged contact with unmasked patients. In addition, serious and expensive health consequences occur from patients postponing both routine preventive care as well as required treatment of dental problems. Many senior citizens require dental procedures which they may delay due to fear of COVID-19.
In the past, dental care has been unwisely left out of many discussions and plans about health care. Please don’t leave dentists and their offices behind in the coronavirus vaccination process.
Mary Beth Hughes
Los Gatos
Nothing to enjoy
in Trump presidency
Re. “Trump never learned to act presidential,” Letters to the Editor, Nov. 27:
Well, Ernie Konnyu, your “enjoyment” of Donald Trump’s presidency, shared by other Trump supporters, was at the expense of the American people who actually do love our country, the Earth and it’s people, fresh air and clean water, and truth and honesty.
Trump cared only for himself, and good riddance.
William Jones
San Jose
Trump supporters should
ask themselves why
As of Nov. 27, election results for Santa Clara County show approximately 618,000 votes for Joe Biden/Kamala Harris and 215,000 for Donald Trump/Mike Pence.
While I’m gratified that Trump was crushed, I’m dismayed that so many of my fellow residents voted for him. So I ask Trump voters to ask yourselves: “Am I a racist? A misogynist? A con man? A liar? An ignoramus? Do I not care about our country’s democracy?” I’m sure all your answers will be negative, in which case please consider that in voting for Trump you supported a man who embodies all these and many more egregious qualities that you don’t tolerate in yourselves.
Your vote cannot be rescinded. But it will be progress if Trump voters acknowledge that they made a mistake and will think hard the next time they consider supporting candidates like Trump, which unfortunately abound in the Republican Party.
Raúl Martínez
Sunnyvale
Nation stands to regain
values with Joe Biden
I was struck by the last two letters published in the Nov. 27 Mercury News. The first, penned by Ernie Konnyu (“Trump never learned to act presidential“), former congressman, claiming to have enjoyed Trump’s four years in office chides him only for not having learned how to act more presidential. How is that even possible with someone that does not among many things accept blame for anything, twists the truth and tells outright lies, and calls anyone not agreeing with him unfortunate names or fires them?
The second one, by Steve Baron, described him as a con man (“In defeat, Trump’s con job continues“), detailing many of his misdeeds, but still receiving 47% of voters.
I asked myself do those voters not care about the character of the person representing us, the American people, or are they ill-informed or perhaps like a dictator-like person who claims to know better than anybody else?
Hopefully, President-elect Joe Biden can restore some morality and decency to the highest office and get us closer to being “The United States” again instead of being as divided as we presently are.
Karl Klemmer
Los Gatos
