Counter Nunes, vote Janz | Letters to the editor, Oct. 28, 2018

Counter Nunes by voting for Janz

A Vote for Nunes sign popped up in the neighborhood. Wish I could magically question a big “Why” to each family. He hasn’t had a community meeting for eight … nine .. years? You might get arrested for trying to see him at his Clovis office we've paid for, but he has never been in.

He was elected to go to Congress as counter-check to presidential and Supreme Court over-reach as the founders envisioned. He was not to make secret trips to the White House to wag his tail at the president. Not to implore his supporters to vote for him to keep the White House resident safe. Our representative should be there to fight for San Joaquin Valley clean air, abundant water, jobs etc., but Mr. Nunes has forgotten that.

His opponent, Andrew Janz actively and eloquently explains his stands on Valley issues. He will be in Washington to work for our interests, then be at home to be available to us to praise or criticize as we see is needed. Vote for Mr. Janz.

With more storms, no oil drilling

Good news on climate change: It’ll stop. As long as we keep burning fossil fuels, adding ever more CO2 to the atmosphere, the extreme weather will get worse. But we will stop our shortsighted foolishness. The Weather Channel reported that, due to the ferocity of Hurricane Michael, “BP and Exxon are evacuating workers from platforms in the Gulf.” We can only hope that, at some time in the near future, storms will grow so violent that it will not be possible to drill oil wells offshore. We’ll have to cut back on oil burning because we won’t be able to get it.

Rewriting the Constitution next?

By confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Senate created a partisan body that will determine outcomes it could never accomplish by any other political process. Domination of wealth over the mass of people will accelerate. Elections poisoned by selective state-sponsored voter suppression will continue. State-approved discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, sexual identity and religion will return. The right of women to determine their own destiny will end. The new Supreme Court will effectively rewrite the Constitution from a theocratic/corporate perspective. The following is one example of what to expect:

“No rights written in the Constitution of the United States shall be interpreted so as to deny any State the power to seize the agency or person of any woman, either by physical restraint or penalty of law, so as to force the completion of any conception to birth, not withstanding any Constitutional restrictions, either enumerated or implied, forbidding infringement upon the liberty, freedom or privacy of the people.”

All three branches of government are controlled by interests far out of touch with the values of the American people.

Please register and vote this November to return to the checks and balances the Founders intended.

Cox will make Valley better

Since moving to the Valley almost 20 years ago, TJ Cox has been a tireless, one-man business incubator and job creator. For years he provided valuable leadership with Habitat for Humanity and has brought much-needed dollars to our communities for building health clinics.

Now congressman David Valadao has has taken a page from the playbook of President Trump and launched a campaign of distortions and smear because he can’t run on his own record, which is one of business failure and votes harming the interests of the majority of people in District 21. Valadao’s votes would have crippled the Affordable Care Act, which for the first time brought meaningful health insurance within reach of most Valley residents, dismantled Dodd-Frank regulations for Wall Street banking reform, and slashed EPA funding to weaken its enforcement of air quality and fuel standards, among many other issues.

TJ Cox will provide the change in representation that we need to make the Valley a better place to live.