Constant outrageous behavior ‘rolls over us’ | Letters to the editor
That was an excellent column about DeSantis and his misdeeds. I’m reading it, thinking, “Wow, there’s a lot more than Steve Bousquet is writing about,” and you later said the list was “scratching the surface.”
We have all been subjected to a firehose of outrageous behavior in Tallahassee that we cannot keep up with before the next one rolls over us. I believe the news media should maintain a categorical list, similar to your editorial, of misdeeds that could be published once per quarter as a reminder to us all how devious our Legislature and governor have become.
Keep up the fine work. We are grateful.
David Hanington, Orlando
A one-sided column
When I read the South Florida Sun Sentinel, I should expect to read headline news including local happenings of great interest, national news and happenings around the world. Instead, every day I read one-sided articles about former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Where is the journalism?
Every story about Trump and DeSantis appears injected with poison-pen innuendo. An example of what I’m saying is Steve Bousquet’s long, drawn-out accusations and criticisms of DeSantis in his two-column story entitled, “To ‘make America Florida’ would be disastrous.” This is nothing but his opinions dripping with hate for the governor. There are legitimate opposing reasons, I’m sure, for everything listed in the opinion soliloquy, and such ill-conceived opinion only tends to upset the more than 4 million people who voted for DeSantis.
I think Bousquet should retract his statement: “This list of DeSantis’ misdeeds only begins to scratch the surface.”
It goes beyond opinion. It makes a public statement.
Edward Ross, West Palm Beach
The SEFLIN Conference
Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library is looking forward to the SEFLIN Conference (Southeast Florida Library Information Network) in West Palm Beach on Aug. 23.
It is an important date on the local calendar. Books remain under attack in the state. Libraries remain guardians of our nation and our region’s culture and history.
Although this conference will touch on more than political and social changes swirling around us, it will be on many minds. Stonewall will present its “Standing on the Shoulders of Heroes” exhibit at the Convention Center and address a breakout session on the urgency of hearing everyone’s story.
The necessity of hearing from those in marginalized communities is the difference between learning history and the biographies of some over the voices of the many. As the largest library in the LGBTQ+ world, and as one of the community’s leading archives, we are a repository of knowledge and resources for the future. We have data that informs how we can and will move forward, based on our collections of the past.
In a world where some are rewriting and in some cases wiping clean integral parts of our history, those of us who work in museums, archives and libraries are ever more determined to ensure that does not happen. SEFLIN represents many South Florida communities where that is about to happen.
Robert Kesten, Fort Lauderdale
The goal: Indoctrination
Eric Bledsoe’s Viewpoint essay promoting competition in choosing college accreditation services is a smokescreen for Gov. Ron DeSantis and his hand-picked conservative allies to convert New College of Florida and the state university system into Christian schools.
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, an accreditation organization, threatened to revoke accreditations, which would result in the loss of federal funding, so they are now attacking that institution.
The goal of DeSantis and his cronies is to indoctrinate students in conservative values. Shame on the Sun Sentinel for not clarifying the issue.
Steven Reznick, M.D., Boca Raton