Let’s all think in lockstep — or else
To the editor:
Why is it that one of the judges of the Miss USA Pageant was upset about the fact that Miss California doesn't believe in gay marriage? Is it that anyone who doesn't believe the same thing as the judge is wrong?
Get over the fact that someone has a different opinion than you do. The judges in that contest should not ask that question anyway, unless they were ready to hear someone tell the truth about how they feel.
In Norm Clarke's Wednesday column, Alicia Jacobs, a KVBC-TV, Channel 3 reporter and pageant judge, said she judged Miss California harshly because of her opinion. Well, sorry Ms. Jacobs, not everyone feels the same way you do.
By the way, Ms. Jacobs, how are our troops doing overseas, and how are the bailouts of all our banks going? When you know the answers to those questions, give your opinion. We would all love to hear it.
Jimmy Wilson
HENDERSON
Moral bearings
To the editor:
Our president is worried about the United States "losing our moral bearings" ("Obama shifts inquiry stance," Wednesday Review-Journal). He refers to harsh interrogation techniques on people determined to kill us.
I wonder how he labels abortion and gay sex? Aborting a fetus is not comparable to "water boarding"?
I wonder how he labels his "moral bearings" on those issues?
Esmael E. Candelaria
HENDERSON
Why vote?
To the editor:
I just finished reading Richard DePaso's Wednesday letter regarding legislative meddling and the smoking ban. In his letter he said, I believe facetiously, "This is similar to politicians saying we don't like who you elected, so we are going to put someone else in that spot."
Well guess what? That is exactly what the politicians are trying to do with Assembly Bill 413. What the politicians would like to do is ignore the votes of the citizens of Nevada and award all Electoral College votes to the candidate who received the most votes nationally.
The framers of the Constitution had a reason for the Electoral College and that reason is still valid today: To ensure that smaller, less populous states would have an equitable say in electing the president of the United States, not just the president of California, New York, Texas and Florida.
If this bill passes, why should Nevadans even vote for a president?
Fred Koshmerl
LAS VEGAS
Idiot lawmakers
To the editor:
I am in favor of eliminating the Electoral College as a means of selecting the president of the United States. The proper way to do so is by constitutional amendment, which I favor and believe is long overdue.
However, the idiots in the Nevada Legislature have proposed AB413, which requires Nevada's representatives to the Electoral College to cast their votes for the candidate who receives the most votes nationally. This is mandated, even if the voters of Nevada chose the other candidate.
Amazingly, all 27 Assembly Democrats present voted in favor of this bill, while all 14 Republicans opposed it. Clearly, the Democrats have nothing but contempt for the voters of Nevada.
I hope the voters will remember that during the next election cycle.
David Adams
LAS VEGAS
Medical costs
To the editor:
The Nevada Assembly sent a bill to the state Senate that would eliminate the voter-imposed $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice claims (Tuesday Review-Journal). Assembly lawmakers did this in response to the Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak caused by a few negligent doctors.
The voter-imposed $350,000 limit greatly reduced medical costs and stopped many doctors from leaving Nevada because of high malpractice insurance costs. Let's avoid another splurge in medical costs and doctor insurance costs by limiting the present bill to only the few doctors involved in the greatly publicized hepatitis outbreak.
We should not forget the great health care savings benefits from the voter-imposed limits that could not pass the Legislature because of the political pressures on lawmakers.
If the bill is approved as now written, it would be a catastrophe. It will take time to impose another limit, and the medical costs in the interim will be high.
Anthony H. Wirtz
BOULDER CITY
Business down
To the editor:
I must take exception to the article in Tuesday's Review-Journal, "Study says ban causes no harm." The authors of this study did not ask for my financial data as to how the voter-approved smoking ban affected my business.
From 1996 through 2006 my business showed an average annual increase in food and beverage sales of 2.7 percent. In 2007, the first full year of the smoking ban, my food and beverage sales decreased 15.1 percent.
The Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act has certainly harmed my business.
RON ARONSOHN
LAS VEGAS
THE WRITER OWNS THE BLUE OX TAVERN.
