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To the editor, Rasmussen: a recent poll showed at least 28% of 2020 mail-in voters admit to casting at least one illegal ballot. The report surmised that was at least 18M votes or 12% of all votes cast in 2020. Biden won by 0.1%.
The report showed that 8% of the electorate were offered a financial incentive which is about 12M votes.
The breakdown was 15% Black, 12% 18 to 39 year olds, 29% Hispanic and the remainder “other.”
Another Rasmussen Poll asked about our Intel Agencies (FBI, CIA, etc.) and their involvement in our elections. 54% think the agencies seek to control the 2024 election.
64% think the agencies influence political news. 58% think the agencies interfering in the 2020 election was more harmful than Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The WSJ recently polled the Black community. 30% of Black Men now support Trump, which is up from 11% in 2020. 11% of Black Women support Trump, which is also double from 2020. Some say this is partly due to Trumps court cases. They say he is unjustly treated by the DOJ, as the Black community has been for years. I have seen videos of the Trump caravan rolling into Atlanta for his arrest and mugshot with streets lined by minority Trump supporters. He is gaining valuable ground.
In his NY “hush money” trial, Trump has been found in contempt of court for the tenth time (gag orders). He is the only person that I can think of that is being tried yet is unable to defend himself in public.
The Judge has threatened him with jail. Americans are waking up to this. If Trump ends up in jail, he will be a shoe-in as our next President.
Rasmussen poll in GA: Who did you vote for in 2020? Trump 48%, Biden 36%.
-Glen Pierce Spokane/Cusick
Gentle poses conflict of interest
To the editor, What do you call it when a politician fixes a competition for a public contract and then diverts excessive amounts of public money from more critical public services to benefit a small group of their biggest campaign contributors potentially financially? It sounds like something you would expect in Chicago or Olympia.
Whatever you want to call it, that is what County Commissioner John Gentle is doing here in Pend Oreille County. After the county commissioners agreed that the County’s Economic Development Council, which has cost taxpayers over a million dollars for little benefit, was no longer beneficial for our county, Gentle fixed the competition for replacing the EDC by allowing the EDC to choose its own replacement. The EDC chose the Port of Pend Oreille, which then immediately reestablished the EDC under its superintendence. Then, after Gentle approved the plan, he participated in a bait-and-switch in which the Port demanded twice the amount of money for its services (Commissioner Rosencrantz whittled it down a little).
The fact that Gentle’s spouse is both a Port Commissioner and a member of the EDC is an apparent conflict of interest. But even more concerning is that the leadership of the Port is Gentle’s biggest campaign contributor. 78 percent of Gentle’s donations have come from the leaders of the Port, the EDC, or Crypto companies. This is especially odorous when you consider that the publicly funded salary and compensation of the Port Manager, who is one of Gentle’s biggest individual donors, is set by Gentle’s spouse.
-Ben Richards Usk
Revenge killing is a fool’s errand
To the editor, I am trying to figure out how not sending 500-pound bombs to Israel is abandoning them and antisemitic as claimed by Republicans. Those bombs are not defensive and cannot be directed with precision in Gasa.
Many non-Hamas men, women and children have been and will continue to be killed when a 500-pound bomb explodes and collapses the building they occupy.
Some people claiming to be followers of Christ think that everyone in Gaza is a legitimate target because Hamas fighters hide among them.
All that retribution is based on the October 7 attack by Hamas that started the current conflict. There is no defense for what Hamas did, but there isn’t justification for killing everyone in Gaza over it.
Israel has created more revenge terrorists by indiscriminately killing tens of thousands of Gaza civilians.
It appears that only way to defeat Hamas is to kill everyone with bombs and shells.
The recent Iranian attack was repelled by air defenses and no missiles reached targets in Israel.
This means that Israel cannot be successfully attacked and destroyed by Iran let alone Hamas.
America must decide if we want to participate in Israel’s revenge killing of Palestinians. That is a fool’s errand as Hamas will be rebranded into a new terrorist enemy of Israel.
The current plan is to starve to death the Palestinians that are not killed by bombs.
Israel is not in a kill or be killed situation. The conflict can’t be resolved by killings by either side. How can Americans ignore the Prince of Peace and send 500-pound bombs to Israel so they can kill civilians?
America took a stand on not sending aid overseas that could be used to support abortions, but we send bombs to kill babies in their cribs as 1,000 tons of building fall on them.
-Pete Scobby Newport
