Immigration "Policy"

What kind of person would take a crying toddler away from its mother and lock it up in a cage? This is morally bankrupt on so many levels. Such people cannot be permitted to lead this nation. Let's do something decisive about this in November.

Election Recommendations

Tomorrow, Tuesday June 5, is primary election day in California. Here are my choices for the ballot. Feel free to consider each position on candidates and propositions as an endorsement. Sometimes there have been more than one good candidate in a race, so don't construe my selections as being "against" any particular candidate. As usual, I will be glued to the election returns tomorrow night. I've already sent in my ballot by mail awhile back, so if you haven't, please vote! Take your ballot in to any polling place in California and it will be counted in your proper precinct.

STATE OFFICES

Governor: Gavin Newsom
Lieutenant Governor: Ed Hernandez
Secretary of State: Alex Padilla
Controller: Betty Yee
Treasurer: Fiona Ma
Attorney General: Xavier Becerra
Insurance Commissioner: Ricardo Lara
Superintendent of Public Instruction: Tony Thurmond 
Board of Equalization, 4th District: David Dodson
Assembly, 77th District: Sunday Gover

FEDERAL OFFICES
U.S. Senator: Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Representative, 52nd District: Scott Peters

COUNTY AND LOCAL OFFICES
Superior Court Judge, Office No. 28: Herbert J. Exarhos
Superior Court Judge, Office No. 37: Matt Brower
County Board of Education, 5th District: Rick Shea
County Assessor/Recorder/Clerk: Matt Strabone
District Attorney: Genevieve Jones-Wright
Sheriff: Dave Myers
County Treasurer/Tax Collector: Dan McAllister

PROPOSITIONS
68: Yes
69: Yes
70: No
71: Yes
72: Yes

"I Will Speak Out Until Integrity Returns to the White House" by John Brennan

Former CIA Director John Brennan served and had direct personal contact with every president from George H. W. Bush to Barack Obama. He found that though they all had different policy approaches, strengths and weaknesses, they all shared two crucial traits: a basic human decency and a sincere desire to do what they felt was in the best interest of the American people, regardless of the politics involved. Never a partisan, Mr. Brennan was summoned to the White House "several hundred times" to bring intelligence, analysis and advice through many international crises and came to hold "respect, awe and admiration" for all of these men: George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

That makes Mr. Brennan's view of current President Donald Trump all the more important. In an editorial entitled, "I Will Speak Out Until Integrity Returns to the White House," Brennan finds in Trump a "demagogue" who presents a clear and present danger to the United States: a man given to "lying routinely to the American people without compunction," who formulates policy based on how it benefits himself rather than the country, who works to "intentionally fuel divisions in our country" and who attacks the Constitutional institutions established to preserve our democracy when they threaten to expose his misdeeds. Brennan finds these traits and motivations more in common with the "corrupt, incompetent and narcissistic foreign officials" he was often called upon to characterize to past American presidents than to any previous American leader. 

Read John Brennan's piece for yourself for a chilling view from a man of experience as to why this president is a danger to American security and freedom and a blot on an office he is unworthy to hold. 

"I Will Speak Out Until Integrity Returns to the White House" by John Brennan.