Republicans must support voters who agree with former Attorney General Barr about "bullshit"!

Applaud the leaders who did not cave to Trump!

Echo opinion letter published in The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, New York.  

While many Republicans supported the former guy Donald Trump’s false claim that the 2020, presidential election was “stolen,” it is important to acknowledge the courage of those Republican leaders who resisted Trump’s pressure to overturn the election results.

Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes sufficient to overturn his state’s (Georgia's) results. Trump also pressured Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to replace the state’s electors. These men investigated allegations of voter fraud and found them all without merit. They refused to give in to the pressure.
The leaders of GOP-controlled legislatures in key states did not waver as Trump’s team pushed the “independent state legislature” theory, which holds that the Constitution bestows on state legislatures plenary power to appoint presidential electors.

Republican-appointed judges also displayed courage under fire. Not one Trump-appointed district judge allowed his baseless lawsuits to proceed.

Eventually, the US Supreme Court also rejected Trump’s bid to overturn the results in four close states.

Attorney General William P. Barr and virtually every other top Justice Department appointee did not bend when Trump told them to declare the election was corrupt. (In fact, Attorney General Barr called the baseless acquisitions "bullshit"!)

We should applaud these Republican leaders for refusing to succumb to Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 election results.

From Don Steiner in Schenectady New York

(Check out the video where former Attorney General Barr calls the election denial "bullshit" at this video site here.)

Trump's cult followers ignore the former guy's #tfg misdeeds and criminal behavior

Echo opinion letter published in The Daily Gazette, in Schenectady, New York.

When confronted with Donald Trump’s misdeeds (and crimes❗), his supporters generally change the subject. 

Trump has been found guilty of sexually abusing journalist E. Jean Carrol and was ordered to pay her $5 million in damages. 

So, I asked why people would continue to support Trump ❓ when he is guilty of sexually assaulting women.

Instead, Trump talked about the Biden’s “lies.” What do Biden’s alleged lies have to do with Trump’s sexual assaults? The answer is “nothing.”

It must be noted that the accusation that President Biden is the “liar-in-chief” comes directly from the “The Republican National Committee” website, a clearly biased source. 

A non-biased assessment of presidential lies published in Forbes magazine compared the lies told by Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden during their first 100 days in office. The article concluded that Trump told more falsehoods than Biden and Obama combined. Trump is “The Lying King.”❗

Don Steiner
Schenectady

Elise Stefanik is a Trumpzi cult alumni. New York District 21 voters deserve better.

Echo opinion published in the The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, New York:

Right wing Rep. Elise Stefanik is more concerned with her own ambitious political agenda than at least waiting to see if an indictment is even handed down.

Elise Stefanik is a Trumpzi cult alumni

In the long run, she cares nothing about the people she serves. She stated, “Knowing they cannot beat President Trump at the ballot box, the Radical Left will now follow the lead of Socialist dictators.”

Uh  HELLO?— but, Trump was beaten at the ballot box;  but if memory serves me, Ms. Stefanik (delusional) believes that Trump did win.

"Shame, shame, shame on you Elise" aka the Lady Macbeth of the Congress.  Ambitious Elise!

The Manhattan District Attorney is investigating Trump for falsifying business records in the first degree with the intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal another crime — in this instance a violation of strict campaign finance laws.

It makes me wonder, if the name of the person being investigated was Smith or Jones and was a Democrat, what her reaction would be then.

"I am still blown away by the complete reversal of her opinion of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. Numerous articles have been written basically asking, “What happened to Elise Stefanik?” Well, it’s obvious, for Stefanik, power, fame and ability to raise hoards of money override duty to the country," North Country Public Radio.

Trump would like nothing better than to become the autocrat of the United States. He is doing the same thing he did in the 2020, election, making statements about things that are not yet true to stir the Trump loyalists.

Stefanik has encouraged protest if and when Trump is arrested.  Hypocrite! Way to go! That’s right, let’s have another January 6th.

So, Ms. Sefanik, how about worrying about the people you represent and what they need?

Deborah Bender, Schoharie, village in New York State

Teaching the Holocaust is essential to protect future generations

Don’t suppress Holocaust lessons

Opinion echo letter published in The Daily Gazette Schenectady, NY:

Several months ago, the South-lake, Texas school district advised their teachers that if they study a book about the Holocaust, they should also offer students a book from an “opposing” perspective.

What was striking to me is that there is no “opposing” perspective to the Holocaust or to the cruelty and barbarism that destroyed so many Jews; killed only because they were Jews.

A Tennessee school board voted to remove a novel about the Holocaust, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman, from the eighth-grade curriculum because it concerns themes and language they deemed offensive.

This announcement was made just a few days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP

Is this something we should all be concerned about?

I believe it is.

Altering the facts, sweetening the words, banning the books, does not protect the student.

Quite the opposite.

Preventing atrocities from reoccurring and seeking hope for the future is through education by trained teachers who know how to bring to their students the historical facts while respecting their intelligence and ability to separate right from universal wrong.

Our responsibility to fix the world means that we must honestly first know how it is broken, then repair is possible.

The planned Capital District Jewish Holocaust Memorial to be constructed in Niskayuna (New York) is vital because it will be a landmark, a beacon of education that speaks for all against hate, prejudice and bigotry.

Michael Lozman
Menands, New York
The writer is president, Capital District Jewish Holocaust Memorial.