Dyer’s fitness for mayor: Letters to the editor, Dec. 6, 2019

Fitness for mayor is at question

Mayoral candidate Jerry Dyer thinks his “detractors” are “saying mean things” when they bring up allegations of his misconduct as a young police officer, and his later misconduct as police chief. Those are not just mean things. They are real questions about his fitness for the job of mayor.

Dyer has not answered directly and publicly to allegations of a sexual relationship with a minor when he was married and a young police officer. Even when he says he matured, his conduct as police chief was at issue in multiple discrimination lawsuits where the plaintiffs succeeded in getting large monetary settlements from the city.

When one of the highest-ranking officers in the police department was convicted of narcotics trafficking, Dyer — who was police chief at the time — responded by saying he felt personally betrayed.

Dyer sounds like a guy who can’t manage anything big, can’t own up to anything, and isn’t fit to be mayor.

She’s ashamed of Democratic party

I do believe that President Trump could cure cancer and stop all wars and still be hated and demonized by the left. I am a registered Democrat, but am truly ashamed of what the Democratic party has become.

Logic that goes round and round

Here’s the Trump argument:

There was no quid quo pro.

If there was quid quo pro, there’s nothing wrong with it.

If there is something wrong with it, we didn’t do it.

If we did do it, there’s nothing wrong with it.

Rinse.

Repeat.

Website needs more pollution data

I, like Marek, was also disturbed by the shortcomings of the SJV Air Pollution Control District’s website valleyair.org. The site shows the air quality index for only one pollutant, PM2.5, but at this particular time the real danger was in the high concentrations of PM10 pollutants. At one point on this particular Sunday, its AQI actually exceeded the highest possible hazardous index, above 500.

Valleyair.org should show the AQI for each of the three major types of air pollution: PM2.5, PM10, and ozone. Then citizens looking at the page will not be lulled into a false sense of security seeing a low AQI for a pollutant that is not at the time of concern, and miss a very dangerous AQI of a pollutant that is.

This story was originally published December 7, 2019 at 6:00 AM with the headline "Dyer’s fitness for mayor: Letters to the editor, Dec. 6, 2019."