Letter to the Editor
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The Houston Chronicle endorsed Joe Biden for nomination and re-election. Let me restate this more clearly. The Houston Chronicle endorsed Joe Biden for nomination and re-election. I’ve already sent my Letter To the Editor agreeing with this, but they...
by Frank L Palmer
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on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 09:31 AM PST
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When the outgoing chief of NATO wrote a severe warning on the crisis that would result from another Trump presidency and AP covered it, I wrote a comment on how dKos members could highlight that issue in their local newspapers. I realize, though, that...
by Frank L Palmer
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 09:54 AM PST
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A recent story, www.dailykos.com/… reported that a focus group in a swing state was filled by people who were shocked by Trump’s claim of total presidential immunity from prosecution. If every voter knows about that, Biden will win re-election heavily....
by Frank L Palmer
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 12:19 PM PST
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Trump is starting to lose it. We can help this process along. Currently, his building on Nazi tropes is getting public attention. When we let our news sources know that this is drawing our interest, they will continue to cover that story. The most...
by Frank L Palmer
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on Wed Dec 20, 2023 at 04:46 PM PST
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I am a writer, with hundreds of magazine articles and two books. I have held editorial positions at several national magazines. I often contribute letters to the editor, and most of them get printed. Recently our local paper got a new LTE editor, who...
by RepackRider
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on Sun Jun 18, 2023 at 11:14 AM PDT
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Winning November by acting this week �
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Achieving any more of the Democratic agenda during the last 2 years of the Biden presidency fairly certainly depends on gaining a net of two more ...
by Frank L Palmer
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on Thu Mar 10, 2022 at 08:00 AM PST
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This letter to the editor ran in yesterday’s San Rafael Independent Journal. COVID-19 is currently the leading cause of death among active police officers. With this in mind, I called the Central Marin Police to make sure that all my employees working...
by RepackRider
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on Thu Nov 18, 2021 at 12:45 PM PST
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November 8, 2022, is election day. Now, in politics anything can go wrong in a year – even in one race, let alone a thousand races. Let’s ask another question, though, Let’s ask what could go right for Democrats over the next year. As most things that...
by Frank Palmer
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on Mon Nov 08, 2021 at 08:18 AM PST
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A Letter To the Editor that I sent was published recently in The Chicago Sun Times. I feel that any contrasts which can be drawn between the results of sensible Democratic governance on Covid and idiotic Republican misgovernment on it should be drawn....
by Frank Palmer
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on Tue Oct 19, 2021 at 10:44 PM PDT
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My "letter to the editor" appeared in the July 14 Marin Independent Journal . Here is the link, but I will spare you from clicking it. Here's the letter: Editor, As the January 6 cases unfold against the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, it is obvious...
by RepackRider
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on Thu Jul 15, 2021 at 11:12 AM PDT
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The extended Child Tax Credit kicks in tomorrow. This is a big, big BFD. We need to message on two fronts: first, to be sure everyone knows about it, because there are families who have not filed taxes for years, and they need to file in order to...
by CitizenJoe
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on Wed Jul 14, 2021 at 08:12 AM PDT
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This five sentence LTE is actually one of my longer ones. Average is three sentences. Approach to incidents shows inconsistency A Republican-led Congress spent five years conducting nine investigations into the 2012 events at Benghazi in Libya. The...
by RepackRider
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on Tue May 25, 2021 at 10:11 AM PDT
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I think it’s only on-line, but I sent a letter to USA Today, and they posted it. Biden COVID-19 plan 'wishful thinking' or real policy? Readers sound off (usatoday.com) The punch line is: For the next four years, though, either Biden succeeds, or...
by Frank Palmer
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on Sat Mar 13, 2021 at 07:03 AM PST
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Okay, the Senate vote has been taken. Nobody ever expected it to reach 67, anyway. Now, it’s time to deal with the electorate. Others have better access to the electorate than we do, but each of us has a voice that can be heard. Collectively, we...
by Frank Palmer
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on Tue Feb 16, 2021 at 05:49 AM PST
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Usually, I �post on possible letters to the editor about�what I consider the issue of the day.
This month, there are too many critical issues calling for our – and the press’s �-- attention. I’
by Frank Palmer
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on Thu Feb 04, 2021 at 07:07 AM PST
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Many have suggested that Trump is going to lead early in election-day votes that are counted first. He is expected to use that lead to claim victory. IF that happens, we should respond early and ...
by Frank Palmer
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on Mon Nov 02, 2020 at 05:28 AM PST
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For some reason, Trump’s calling fallen soldiers, “losers,” has resonated in ways far worse actions have not. Let’s cooperate with this. I’ve written what we might hope for at the bottom of this post. If you do nothing else or in addition to whatever...
by Frank Palmer
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on Tue Sep 08, 2020 at 08:17 AM PDT
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Normally, I don’t mention my own LTEs unless they are printed. This one that I submitted to the , though, illustrates how we can keep the bounty issue in front of people, Statues of dead Confederate generals who fought against this country? Trump is...
by Frank Palmer
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on Mon Jul 06, 2020 at 07:21 AM PDT
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The editor of my local paper told me he can only use my contributions to the letters column about every other week. Still I had two published four days apart recently. Here is today’s effort (scroll down to the bottom). Here is the text: Trump is...
by RepackRider
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on Mon Dec 02, 2019 at 06:52 AM PST
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All the reporting on Trump’s call to the Ukrainian president misses one critical point. I mentioned that to our readers in: www.dailykos.com/… After consideration, I think that as many of us as possible should be pointing that out. 1) This is dirtier...
by Frank Palmer
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on Tue Nov 12, 2019 at 04:30 PM PST
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