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Bergman’s hypocrisy

To the editor: Little more needs to be said about the hypocrisy of the majority of the Republican party.  Still, it’s hard to resist when the hypocrisy is so blatant. Represenative Jack Bergman is one of the Congressional Republicans who chose to believe President Trump’s lies about the illegitimacy of the 2020 election and who voted to reject the electoral college votes for Biden, even after Republican supporters had trashed the capital.  He then voted against the impeachment proposal, justifying his vote with the following rationale:  “The electoral process in Congress ...

Looking for affirmation

To the editor: Joe Scarborough said that many of us look to news for affirmation, not information. This struck me, because I’m afraid we only believe what we want to believe, and we only hear what we want to hear.  This could be dangerous, if we accept misinformation and lies to bolster what we want to hear. President Trump lied to us, over and over. The storming of the Capitol Building in D.C. was incited by the president telling his supporters that they had the power to overturn the election. hey don’t. He told his supporters in Georgia that V.P. Pence could refuse to accept ...

Regarding the manifesto

To the editor: For the record concerning the Baraga County manifesto signed by our local elected officials: MDHHS restrictions related to COVID-19 (based on 1918 Spanish Flu enacted state laws) have not been ruled unconstitutional by the Michigan Supreme Court. And here is what the last two months of COVID -19 restrictions have accomplished: Cases: Michigan averaged 64 new daily cases for every 100,000 people in early December, roughly 6,400 a day, the 35th highest rate in the country. The rate has fallen by nearly half to 35 daily cases this week. Only three states have lower ...

Salute to school board members

To the editor: As a local school board member, can you imagine getting an email at 11:30 p.m. on the evening of Thursday March 12 from your district superintendent letting you know your state Governor has just ordered all K-12 school closed beginning Monday, March 16, due to what was to become a pandemic? In the weeks to come, the closer to face-to-face instruction in your district was extended again, and again, and again. As a school board member in the community, your role is voluntary with little or no compensation. Your role; work collaboratively with your district education ...

What is the answer?

To the editor: Our elected officials, Rep. Jack Bergman and State Rep. Greg Markkanen, are representing a segment of their constituent’s concerns regarding possible “voting irregularities” in our November election, but they are not representing me nor a large bulk of their citizens who believe the Michigan Board of State Canvassers correctly certified the total of ballots cast. Elections are key to a Democracy. Elections certainly merit questioning. But answers are also merited. In mid-December, I emailed Bergman asking his rationale for ...

Send in the clowns

To the editor: Why so much unrest and such turmoil? Why so little trust in one another? Why such widespread angst? Why the quick retreat into warring factions? History teaches us that humans don’t respond well to being rendered increasingly irrelevant. Post WWI German economic despair provided a fertile ground for a propagandist named Hitler to fabricate a mythical legend about a superior race being oppressed by genetically inferior Jews. As a result, six million people died. Many Americans are feeling increasingly irrelevant these days. Unlike their parents’ generation, many ...