Defendants in voter fraud cases have endured enough | Letters to the editor
How horrible. Let’s spend our Florida tax dollars going after 20 convicted felons who have completed their sentences, received official government voter information cards and only wanted to cast their vote.
These are the 20 people (in Broward, Palm Beach and elsewhere) who were caught by the Office of Election Crimes and Security, created by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Don’t you think they have gone through enough?
Some are still fighting in court and are up against the possibility of a five-year sentence for having voted illegally.
Does DeSantis have any mercy? They only wanted to vote and they were issued voting cards. Stop harassing them just to prove that you are right, and stop spending our hard-earned tax dollars on this type of nonsense.
Diane Miller, Plantation
The evidence is damning
Donald Trump is on trial in New York for allegedly falsifying his company’s business records to conceal information from voters he knew would harm his 2016 election, a serious criminal offense.
The evidence against him is damning, with many of the allegedly falsified documents having Donald Trump’s signature on them. This is a clear indication of Trump’s pattern of engaging in criminal behavior and doing everything to stay in power, including inciting a deadly insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing justice. Trump has repeatedly jeopardized American democracy by stoking chaos and disorder — and he’s a worse threat today.
While Trump and his allies have sought to delay accountability at every turn, most recently by appealing to his allies on the Supreme Court, there’s still time to bring the other criminal cases to trial before November. That’s what the people deserve.
Despite what Trump and his allies may claim, no one is above the law, including a former president charged with multiple serious crimes. An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that when elected officials break the law, we must hold them accountable — whether it’s a citizen, candidate or president.
The American people agree that Trump must be held accountable. Otherwise, he will continue upending the rule of law.
We must speak out as a nation to demand accountability. Our democracy demands it.
Barbara Venkataraman, Fort Lauderdale
A tale of two women
I have written previously about Trump. This time, however, I must be heard with regard to women.
As a daughter, sister, wife, mother and grandmother, I have a lot to say regarding the plight and/or success of certain women.
Woman No. 1: In the early 1960s, I worked for a doctor in Manhattan who was involved in experimental chemotherapy (before it was called oncology). I called my office “the land of the living dead” as the patients were all terminally ill, and treatments were giving them more time. One case, which has haunted me for all these years, involved a young woman with stage four breast cancer. A mother of two, she was undergoing chemotherapy, was pale and wan, and became pregnant. Needless to say, this pregnancy had to be terminated. This poor woman, devastated by her entire situation, was forced to go before the “Abortion Committee” at Mount Sinai Hospital, to virtually beg approval for the procedure. It’s pretty applicable to today, right?
Woman No. 2 is U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. I must borrow an excerpt from a recent Sun Sentinel editorial and substitute her name for Trump’s: There is no way to sanitize Marjorie. Her inexhaustible fountain of bigotry defines her. Her vulgarity is boundless. Her contempt for democracy, for dissent, for honest differences of political opinion mark her as more dangerous to the nation than any invader from abroad, real or imagined.
She is who she is. Those who laugh at her crude jokes, and sympathize with her hatreds, are who they are.
The question for the rest of us is this: Who are we?
Vivian Woda, Delray Beach