Street racing is getting out of control | Letters to the editor
Here’s our problem. Unfortunately, due to my beloved state of Oklahoma, street racing has become popular elsewhere, including Florida.
My wife and I have been terrified three times this year, being caught in the middle of over-100 miles-per-hour drag racing contests. We had to stop since she got heart palpitations from it.
Here in Palm Beach County, local law enforcement does absolutely nothing to stop it. Street racers have become so brazen that we hear racing outside our house next to Military Trail, virtually 24 hours a day. The street racers laugh at law enforcement. I have spoke to a few of them, and they all say they don’t bother anyone and that the cops are scared of them.
I have some possibly life-threatening illnesses and am awakened all the time with the roar of cars racing outside our house on Military Trail.
Think of all the gasoline they are expending during these times of high gas prices. Recently, while traveling on Jog Road and Military, I counted 11 sets of pronounced skid marks where vehicles had run off the road and gone up onto sidewalks and hit objects like fences, between a five-mile stretch along Jog and Military.
Thankfully the streets of South Florida are somewhat wide, which I think keeps the pedestrian death toll down.
Why isn’t our government serious about clamping down on street racing as in other states?
Lawrence Hill, Boynton Beach
The risks of impeachment
Donald Trump has given congressional Democrats many gifts. The clear and present danger he posed to our republic helped Democrats flip the House in 2018, seize the Senate in 2020, and prevent a red wave in 2022.
As Trump’s minions force the hapless and craven House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to launch an impeachment investigation, Trump is now helping Democrats to flip the House and hold the Senate in 2024. How? Even if Republicans have the votes to impeach, something Trump will demand, they will lack the votes to convict.
Moreover, Republicans in swing congressional districts will be put in an impossible position. They can vote to impeach despite what is certain to be the lack of any credible evidence, in which case they will lose all but the crazy vote next November. Or they can vote against impeachment and suffer the same fate as former Rep. Liz Cheney.
Senate Republicans will face a similar Hobson’s choice if Biden is impeached. As a result, Democrats will hold the Senate and pick up enough seats to flip the House. Thank you in advance, Mr. Trump.
Michael K. Cantwell, Delray Beach
Hunting Hunter Biden
Oh, the irony. The gun fetishist Republican Party is thrilled to hear of Hunter Biden’s indictment on … gun charges.
He supposedly lied on his application. He possessed the gun for 11 days, during which time it was never brandished or used in any criminal act. It was simply discarded. All this proves is that anybody can check a box on an application with false information and acquire a gun. Of course, unless you are in Florida or 25 other states, where you do not need a permit.
Once again, Republicans prove that they only care about things to distract from their own dirty deeds. All they want is Hunter Biden’s head to hang mounted to a wall alongside other political game they have hunted for sport. Hunter has been hunted. Boy, you’ve got him now!! Yee haw!
Alex Jimenez, Winter Park