Heed the warning, Floridians
Recent flooding in Texas has resulted in more than 100 deaths, including several young girls at a summer camp.
At a press conference, a Texas official said “Everybody got the forecast from the National Weather Service. They did not predict the amount of rain that we saw.”
Texas, of course, is a proud red state.
Its governor, Greg Abbott, stands firmly with President Donald Trump, whose administration led to unnecessary deaths because the National Weather Service was compromised by the arbitrary and unnecessary cuts imposed earlier this year by the Department of Government Efficiency.
As we enter the hurricane season, we Floridians must take our usual precautions knowing that the weather information on which we rely is now compromised.
Steve Johnson, Punta Gorda
Reader gives Fugate his flowers
If you overlooked Marty Fugate’s recent review of the Sarasota Art Museum’s show “Personal to Political,” you missed a wonderfully informed, revealing and grippingly readable account of his experience there.
Marvelously well done, Mr. Fugate!
Bonnie Jo Hurley, Venice
Jacques, MAGA types overlook Trump’s behavior
I have been reading USA TODAY columnist Ingrid Jacques’ MAGA screeds for a long time wondering – as I often wonder about most of President Donald Trump’s MAGA base – how could she support what Trump is doing to America, Americans and to law-abiding immigrants.
In one of Jacques’ recent columns, she finally got one thing right.
Jacques fears, and rightly so, that when Trump leaves office, universities like Penn and every other rational, right-minded university, law firm, government agency, cabinet member and American “will go back” to the old lawful, constitutional and democratic ways that Trump unlawfully and unconstitutionally forced some of them to abandon.
Trump worshippers like Jacques and congressional Republicans approve or overlook behavior that is unworthy of a president of the United States.
When every Democrat in Congress opposed Trump’s “One Big Bad Bill,” he railed that he hated Democrats because he really believes “they hate our country.”
Is hating half of Americans worthy of any president?
The majority of Democrats don’t hate Trump, but they do hate what he has done and is doing to America, its institutions and its immigrants.
They, and I suspect some Republicans, also hate that Trump is turning America into a pariah among the countries of the world.
George Myers, Venice
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Deadly Texas flooding offers warning for Floridians | Letters
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