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We lose so much
through hatered

I don’t understand how anyone can hate because of skin color, religion or ancestry.

When I was young I had a dance partner with the last name of Yip. In middle school, one of my best friends had a last name of Akaba, whose parents had been at Manzanar. I’ve had a Black doctor, a Hispanic doctor and an Asian doctor. I cannot imagine what my life would have been like without all those people.

What a loss it would have been to my life if I had been taught to hate. My life has been fuller, happier and better because of the people I’ve known. Think about what you will lose the next time you think about hate.

Corrine Moore
Newark

California should exploit
offshore wind energy

California has a major untapped clean energy source we can’t afford to ignore: offshore wind. We need to rapidly ramp up our clean energy production to meet our 100% goal and diversify our energy sources to ensure grid reliability and resiliency.

A new report by Environment California Research & Policy Center found that offshore wind has the technical capacity to meet over half of our 2050 electricity needs.

While solar and terrestrial wind are most productive during the day, offshore winds are strongest at night when electricity use is highest. California has the greatest offshore wind capacity on the Pacific coast.

Recently, Assemblyman David Chiu proposed AB 525 to jump-start offshore wind production in California by setting a goal of 10 gigawatts by 2040. Californians and their legislators should support AB 525 to help ensure that we have clean, reliable energy in the decades to come.

Emily Woods
Berkeley


Myriad reasons behind
GOP election struggles

Re. “Real reason Newsom is the target of a recall,” Page A7, March 31 :

While the article is informative regarding the history of Republicans losing elections in California, a different viewpoint is why.

California and most suburban areas across the United States have moved away from the outdated and narrow ideas the GOP has regarding what is important to the electorate. Most voters now believe that climate change is real, the economy needs equitable handling for all, a woman’s health is important for her (and her doctors) to manage, Black Lives Matter, Asian Americans really do face hate, misogyny is real, and on and on.

The GOP has become a party of older, white men who want the “Leave it to Beaver” world of the mid-20th century. The United States and the world are moving away from the “olden days” while the GOP can’t even come up with a platform for their presidential election except to say, “Whatever Trump wants is fine.” That is the why.

Stacie Thomas
Fremont

GOP has abandoned
diversification effort

I wonder if Republicans have thrown in the towel on diversification. In states having a majority of GOP congressional members, they furiously work to pass laws that will Make Voting White Again. These largely symbolic efforts will not survive legal battles pertaining to their constitutionality, but the focus of their collective rage is clear. The party of White grievance (GOP) has devolved into a motley assemblage of whining nihilists.

In California, their best chance to capture statewide office lies with a recall since Republicans hold little sway here. Elsewhere, they pin their hopes on redistricting and voter suppression attempts in a desperate last-gasp stab at retaining relevancy.

Also, the reluctance of these dinosaurs to vaccinate against COVID would be comically pathetic were it not for the fact that their malfeasance endangers others.

This party had a long run. Now splintering into a disjointed throng of cohorts, it will have a difficult time maintaining a meaningful presence.

Jon James
Pleasanton

GOP proposals boost
suppression, not integrity

Republicans worry about election integrity. Here are their solutions:

• Stop supplying food or water to voters in line. Voters, go out to eat.

• Shorten early voting and reduce ballot by mail. Go to the polls on Election Day as we used to.

• Don’t worry about public transport. No one rides the bus to vote.

• Shorten polling hours. Voters can take off work early.

• Forget the homeless. They have no stake in the outcome.

• No voting rights for ex-felons. Once a felon always a felon.

• “Souls to the Polls”? Sacrilege.

• Lines too long? Go midday.

• Confusing signature requirements? Learn to read.

• Voter ID costs money and takes time? Quit griping.

If you can’t figure out how these initiatives enhance election integrity, attend Republican town halls or write letters to legislators for an explanation. Or use your common sense and see that this is … voter suppression.

Patricia Andrews
San Jose