Letters: Continued crudeness; McCormick puts profits ahead of Pennsylvanians
Continued crudeness
Donald Trump has a long history of offensive comments so it’s hard to be surprised by anything he says.
But he just exceeded the low bar he set for himself.
He called Kamala Harris “real garbage.” Yes, a man who was president and wants that office again used that disgusting term to describe our current vice president and his likely opponent in the presidential race.
How much crude and offensive behavior is required to make clear that Trump is unfit for the presidency?
McCormick puts profits ahead of Pennsylvanians
Dave McCormick is in some hot water for investing $1.7 million in China’s largest fentanyl producer and for good reason.
McCormick’s investments are completely disqualifying for someone who wants to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate.
The fentanyl epidemic in our country has hit Pennsylvania particularly hard. The statistics are heartbreaking.
Thousands have died across Pennsylvania over the last decade. In Centre County, 164 people have died from overdoses since 2013.
Behind these sobering statistics are friends, loved ones, and families of victims who have been devastated by fentanyl and other dangerous drugs. Families have been ripped apart and whole communities have suffered greatly.
We know how to stop this: Crack down on the source.
The source of the vast majority of the fentanyl that Mexican drug cartels traffic into the U.S.
Senator Bob Casey successfully passed his FEND Off Fentanyl bill that would crack down on manufacturers in China and the criminal cartels in Mexico smuggling fentanyl and other dangerous drugs across the border.
Meanwhile, McCormick pumped money into the largest fentanyl producer in China while fentanyl from China killed thousands of Pennsylvanians.
Casey supported a bipartisan border deal that would help us secure the border, while McCormick aggressively lobbied against it.
The choice we have before us this November is an obvious one. Senator Casey is committed to keeping our communities safe, while McCormick is willing to put profits ahead of Pennsylvanians to protect his bottom line.
No sense of decency
Republican calls for unity after the assassination attempt were short-lived, replaced by increasing vitriol against President Biden and Vice President — and presidential candidate — Kamala Harris.
Biden served our country well for 50 years. True to character, he sacrificed his personal ambitions for the good of the country by ending his bid for reelection. In return, the Republican ticket doubled down on the cruel and boorish attacks, reinforcing concerns about their own campaign. (Americans have long claimed that both Biden and Trump were too old and should step aside.)
It didn’t take long for Republicans to call Harris the “DEI candidate,” attributing her achievements to preferential treatment owing to race and gender. Republican elected officials piled on with racist and sexist attacks against Harris, leading party leaders to remind them to behave.
Republicans seem to believe that only white men have earned their success and deserve power. Successful women and people of color, MAGA argues, have been given opportunities they “don’t deserve” and “didn’t earn.” Hence the attempts to discredit Harris.
Such Republican tactics are nothing new. Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy maliciously and falsely accused prominent citizens of being communists. After McCarthy accused the U.S. Army of being soft on communism, the Army hired attorney Joseph Welch to defend them. When McCarthy attacked Welch’s law associate as a communist, Welch retorted: “Have you no sense of decency?”
In their unrelenting racist and misogynistic attacks, today’s Republicans clearly show us that they have no sense of decency.