Border security
I’m not sure why the Tribune-Herald continues to publish columns by Dana Milbank, who continues to twist the truth.
In Milbank’s column last week, for just one example, he both twists and omits an important element from his quote from J.D. Vance, the Republican candidate for the Senate seat for Ohio, about our border security.
“The media calls us racist for wanting to build Trump’s wall. They censor us, but it doesn’t change the truth. Joe Biden’s open border is killing Ohioans with more illegal drugs and more Democrat voters pouring into this country.”
Vance then cites his mother’s drug addiction from the “poison coming across our border.”
We just passed the 1 millionth drug overdose death mark for just the 2021 year, whereas we have also just passed the same mark for COVID-19 deaths, but it took us 2½ years to reach that sad mark.
Closing our borders would go a long way in slowing down the drug overdose death rate.
Milbank and other liberal commentators continue to deny that which we can see with our own eyes. The border is very open and may soon become much worse.
Also, while it is true that “more Democratic voters” are not pouring over the border, it is also true that the Democratic Party has often expressed the view that most of them will eventually become Democratic voters, which, interestingly enough, may no longer be the case.
Daniel J. Kunert
Hilo
Losing my vote
Here’s a question that needs to be asked: What’s up with Nicole Lowen?
Based on objections raised by Hawaii Electric, the State Energy Office and UH’s Natural Energy Institute, she quite commendably agreed with a unanimous committee vote to delete language in a bill that would have shackled the Public Utilities Commission from doing its job and would have shoe-horned Honua Ola into Hawaii County’s electrical grid.
So far, so good, as Honua Ola is an air-, water- and planet-polluting business that has no business operating here in Hawaii.
But subsequently, behind closed doors, Ms. Lowen reinserted the objectionable language into the bill, got legislative approval, and forwarded the bill for Gov. David Ige’s signature. All behind closed doors.
So, what’s up with Nicole Lowen? If the reporting is true, then she is not representing her constituency well. She is, in fact, asking us to pay more for our electricity, breathe unnecessarily fouled air, drink unnecessarily polluted water, put up with unnecessary trucking hazards on our highways, and contribute to the climate crisis affecting the planet.
Why would she do that? And most especially, why would she maintain one position in public and the opposite position in private? I don’t know, but I will certainly email my objections to Gov. Ige for his consideration. Perhaps he will choose his citizens’ interests instead of corporate interests, and reject the bill.
And next time up, I will not vote for Nicole Lowen.
Skip Sims
Ninole