Editor:

I am glad that climate change was brought up in the presidential debate. All candidates should address climate change in their campaigns if they want to get votes as the American people know that there is 99% consensus in the scientific community as to the link between climate change and human activities.

Recent press coverage has highlighted the consequences of the continued warming including heat-related crop failures and insurance payouts. The Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 which recently passed committee would help to address this by speeding the implementation of clean energy projects.

The bill does not increase the size of government, but it does increase the size of the economy by increasing the energy supply. I am hoping Congresswoman Tenney will co-sponsor this important legislation.

As a lifelong Republican and a member of Citizen’s Climate Lobby, I know that Conservation is Conservative!

Rob Johnson

Medina

Editor:

Town of Shelby residents, please read and sign our petition if you are tired of having revisit the fight to protect the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge year after year.

The petition reads as follows: We, the undersigned residents of the Town of Shelby, NY, are asking that the Town of Shelby formally pass a law banning any commercial industrial wind projects and commercial industrial mining in the town. The town’s residents have overwhelmingly rejected these proposals for over 15 years. We should not have to keep revisiting this fight.”

The Town of Shelby only has a 5-member board. Over the years several board members have secretly been approached by both industrial mining companies and industrial wind turbine companies and asked to sign lucrative contracts for the use of their land.

Board members have been pitted against town residents because they stand to gain financially for their positions on the board. In a recent case it involved access to town legal counsel who worked for a firm representing the wind company. The conflicts of interest are undeniable.

It is time to put these issues to rest once and for all. The Town of Shelby is in the middle of the second largest migratory bird flyway in the country. These industrial applications, while they may be appropriate elsewhere, are a danger to the wildlife that frequent the refuge as well as the way of life for the town residents. They affect everyone in the town, not just a single property owner.

Town residents should not have to revisit and refight these issues every time a board member gets offered money for allowing industrial mining or industrial wind turbines on their property. Please create a local law that bans these applications within the Town of Shelby.  Please just click here for a link to sign the petition.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

Wendi Pencille

Town of Shelby

Editor:

My opinion. As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west the Democratic Party machine, its minions in the government-controlled media, its corrupt NGOs and mad dog rabid base, lie, cheat, propagandize and steal elections.

It’s so bad that now it is in your face and out in the open. They just don’t care. The seminar writers that flood the letter sections in the Hub with lies, backwards vision, delusion and in some cases out right hatred for citizens that don’t hold their views. The delusions of grandeur on parade. I’m saying the propaganda by these extreme leftists would make Leni Riefenstahl proud.

I sure hope the NGO (non-governmental organizations or community organizers) or Democrat operatives are paying them well to publicly lie day in and day out or maybe they just are true believers, brain-slaves to the very limited low information news networks, propagandized fact bases, and radio they listen to such as CNN, ABC, NPR or by nutty Marxist college professor indoctrination.

Anyone that would give praise to Kamala Harris and the Biden administration after all the damage they have done to this country in just under four years I have to question their sanity. To quote Dr. Michael Savage, “Liberalism is a mental disorder.”

I believe most Hub readers can see right through this desperate push to keep in power the “America Last” rush to the third world bottom that these globalist-controlled puppets have set us on  course to. Only President Donald J. Trump a real leader and the best president this country had had in my lifetime can save this country and keep us a sovereign nation and a Constitutional Republic.

While one side lives in a constant state of misery, hates the country and everything it has been founded on, MAGA loves our country and we want it to great again and to be respected and feared by leaders and dictators in the world.

Don’t let the Democratic Party steal this election again. The Democratic Party cheats big time. Been doing it openly since1960 with proof of it all over the country, only in this election if they lose it ends the deep state, the globalists, and will bring out the truth about January 6th, it will bring out the truth about the last four years, the treasonous, purposeful, great replacement invasion of Illegal aliens at our southern border, the Trump assassination attempts and put an abrupt stop to Agenda 2030. Very high up people that have gotten away with decades of corruption will be arrested and will go to jail.

This is about good and evil. Which will prevail?

The Democratic Party is a party of death and destruction. Just look at their policies. So many have died and are dying from their policies. I believe America is good. May God bless America. Vote early, get your vote in for Trump and the entire Republican ticket. We have to have both chambers of the house also to Make America Great Again. Remember Democrat NGOs and operatives cheat they probably have a plan already in the works to ruin things for election day. Trump 2024 MAGA.

Paul Lauricella

Town of Yates

Lauricella is the chairman of the Orleans County Conservative Party.

Editor:

A lot has changed since my youth. In my youth, Conservatives called Russians the “godless Reds.” Today, the Chairman of the Orleans Conservative Party writes that they are “predominantly white Christians.” I wasn’t aware that they had changed colors or religious beliefs.

In my youth, I was always told that it was important to use facts and data to support my argument. However, in a recent letter to the Hub a writer stated that millions of Russians have been killed in the war with Ukraine. Whether you look up the high figures or the minimum, there are no estimates even close to a million or millions that the writer asserts.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 616,300 Russian combatants have died as of Sept. 1, 2024. Russian military said that its casualties are approaching 300,000 . But who needs facts when you can make up stuff to make a point and it is even better if the point you are making is some off the chart conspiracy theory.

In my youth, any leader would have been called out for spreading racist lies. Today, Republican candidates for president and vice president are spreading vile lies about legal immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, resulting in bomb threats. Even though City officials of Springfield have repeatedly denied these false claims, no national Republican leader and none locally have called out these lies. And these lies are just outrageously racist.

In my youth, the statement: “The only thing standing in the way of the Democrats and the globalists is Trump,” would have been condemned by religious leaders as idolatry and blasphemy. But today there is silence. Where are the political and religious leaders today who will stand up against hate and bigotry.

William Fine

Brockport

Editor:

Many thanks to Ms. Crane of the Orleans Democratic Party in providing some detail on what the party is doing.  I believe that Letters to the Editor of the Hub is an effective way to get out the word to the largest number of voters on Democratic candidates and issues.

While there may not be a large number of Democratic candidates seeking office in the county, there are many issues at the state and national level that need explaining.

Tom Rivers has stated that over 8,000 people read The Hub regularly. Not bad for a county of 40,000 people! By using the Hub, Democrats could reach over 20% of the voters every day.

Jack Capurso

Albion High School, Class of 1960

Ashburn, Va

Editor:

According to FactCheck.org, a project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center, the following by Robert Farley was posted on April 4, 2024:

“To be sure, illegal immigration soared after Biden took office, as the chart shows even without cherry-picking the pandemic low. According to our latest update to ‘Biden’s Numbers’ in late January, apprehensions for the 12 months ending in November were 296% higher than during Trump’s last year in office.”

How has the story shifted so far away from reality?  Just saying something isn’t enough to make it true. Trump did a good job on the border and our country was safer.

Mary Hare

Medina

Editor:

Many thanks to Paul Lauricella for the clear and concise Letter to the Editor. I truly felt uplifted by his honesty and truthful depiction of what has been a stark reality during the Biden/Harris time in office.

Prior to that, someone stated that Kamala Harris has “great instincts”, “impressive intelligence”, and is a “formidable leader”. Like many Americans, I’m still waiting for those attributes to surface; her time as VP has fallen short of earning her any of those credentials.  Her attempts at clarifying her stance on serious issues have resulted in an ambiguous blob of uncertainty.

Although some writers on this forum have attempted to puff up her portfolio, it is like trying to inflate a punctured balloon. Failures and missteps are the holes that make up the fabric of her time as VP. As I previously stated, the Democrats will try and reinvent her as an articulate, intelligent powerhouse. That is not going to be an easy task since many of her initiatives have never reached completion.

However the media is a persistent beast, and you may have noticed some recent endorsements that seem to suggest some high-ranking Republicans are casting their vote for her. One such character is Dick Cheney. Apparently Kamala was honored to have his endorsement. However, if we look at Cheney, under the lens, we will see a career riddled with corruption and bribery.

He has quite a reputation as a war profiteer who started and perpetuated many wars. His business dealings with corrupt Arab Autocrats have been added to his undignified record. In Nigeria a notorious bribery plan involving Halliburton (an oil company he was  previously involved with) also soiled his so called stellar image. He escaped prosecution only because Halliburton agreed to pay a settlement. How convenient. Why would anyone be honored to have his endorsement?

On the other side of absurdity, some fairytale endorsements have emerged from various people in the entertainment business. It’s been plastered all over the news that Taylor Swift is endorsing Harris. Okay, what are we suppose to do with that? Does the media plan to name drop these celebrities in a pitiful attempt to sway voters? Actually at this point in time the media will stop at nothing to bamboozle the public.

By the way, I was accused of referencing an article about the media from 1994 (even though it still applies today).  Two more recent articles, on the media, back up my statements- “How US Media Lost the Trust of the Public” by Saman Malik and Sarah Peterson and “American Trust in Media is Near Record Low, Study Finds” by Annie Aguitar and Angela Fu.

The clock is ticking, and I encourage everyone to keep digging for the truth. It is no longer as simple as turning on the TV or reading the newspaper. If a narrative encourages you to doubt the proven facts, the irresponsible mainstream media is probably to blame. Our responsibility is to check everything and verify with multiple sources.

Mary Mager

Fairport, formerly of Albion

Editor:

Are you, your family, and your friends registered to vote this fall?  Does your registration include your current legal address?

We have stark contrasts in the presidential and congressional races this fall. We also have the opportunity to amend our state constitution to stand up for equal rights.

Now is the time to make sure your voter registration is accurate, be an informed citizen, choose wisely, and cast your anonymous vote.

We are fortunate to have election officials and systems in place to ensure only those qualified are voting and ensure the anonymity of what you mark on your ballot. It is even OK to choose a couple pieces to vote on in an informed way and leave the others blank. When you register to vote, you are not required to choose a party. This is necessary to vote in primary elections and is helpful to those organizing election campaigns.

The last day for the county board of elections to update your address is Oct. 21. The last day to register to vote is Oct. 26.

Make it easy on our county election office employees by making a plan to register, do address changes, or request an absentee ballot ASAP. You can stop by their office at 14016 Route 31, Suite 140 in Albion.

You can also call or connect online with them with questions: 585-589-3274, OrleansCountyNY.gov/elections.

Early voting will be Oct. 26 through Nov. 3 at the county election office; traditional Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5.

Beth Wood

Barre

Editor:

The Fundamental Transformation of America. The Great Reset – Whatever they want to call it.

As Barack Hussein Obama’s third term comes to a close, the Democratic Party, the Deep State and the Global Elites are on the ropes as America and the entire globe has awakened to their evil plot for one world government with no borders where they have control of speech, every means of production, what we eat, what we drive and our freedom of travel (that will be eliminated) the environment and how and where we live.

The Democrats have inserted with no primary votes from the American people – two naked communists, Harris and Waltz. Puppets that once in power will finish off the middle class in this country.

While we are now living a lot of George Orwell’s 1984, it will be full-blown implemented with the force from one of the most corrupt DOJ’s (right now) the country has ever seen. These people will explode the size of the federal government to proportions never seen before in American history.

All speech that dissents against the government or any protected class of people will result in arrest and imprisonment. The constitution will fall. Anyone telling the truth will become an enemy of the state. Isn’t that what’s going on now anyone telling the truth is drowned out by the Democrat media and big social media as a conspiracy theorist? (They are doing this right now in the UK)

The biggest obstacle to the globalists’ plans is the white Christian male. My opinion is why has Biden been so eager to keep this war going in Ukraine? Besides feeding the military industrial complex, both Russians and Ukrainians are white and predominately Christian. 600,000 Ukrainian men and millions of Russians have been killed in this war. Why do you think the great replacement of the white European male has been taking place all over the western globe?

Make no mistake the globalists, the traitorous Democratic Party want to keep power forever. The invasion of our border with these mostly military-aged men – many who have been military trained – is starting to show its ugly face with rampant migrant crime throughout or entire country. Other countries have cleaned out their prisons, mental institutions, jails and have sent their worst to our country.

Over 300,000 illegal alien children have disappeared off the radar. Sold into slavery and human child trafficking. This would make the Department of Homeland Security director one of the biggest child traffickers in the history of the world. These illegal immigrants, probably around 20 million of them, have taken resources and are put first above every need of American citizens.

What monsters would open a border to the world give them full financial support while making every policy detrimental to its own citizens? Lie to you for 4 years saying the border is closed. Lie to you about everything! This is collapsing our system, destroying our culture and destroying our country.

Can you imagine four more years of this? They want to give reparations on top of that? The country will die. By the way there is 16 tons of ammonium nitrate missing from the stock pile that no one can account for. Don’t think ( my opinion) that a government that is covering up an assassination attempt on Trump wouldn’t use that to take out our grid and kill tens of millions of people to declare martial law and stop the 2024 election.

Humanity is not a part of their Agenda 2030 goals you mean nothing to them. Three quarters of us could be wiped off the face of the earth and the quarter left would be to many for these evil people. Make no mistake that is their goal.

If you are paying attention they openly tell you that. If you vote Democrat this November 5th you are voting to put the death nail in all of western civilization. Call me crazy, that’s OK. I hope I’m so wrong. The only thing standing in the way of the Democrats and the globalists is Trump.

They fear him like Dracula fears the cross and Democrats fear God in our lives. The world is on fire but it is also more awake than it’s ever been. The common man, the farmer, most all of humanity sees and understands something is very wrong.

Obama’s fourth term will be the end of the USA. Like him or not Trump 2024 is our only hope to change this upside-down country and world.

Paul Lauricella

Lyndonville

Lauricella is chairman of the Orleans County Conservative Party

Editor:

Harris used to pick juries. She has great instincts.

The debate and how Trump responded was very revealing – both about Trump and why his diehard supporters did not notice while it was on that she won.

To start, Trump was not able to look over at Harris. It’s called reactive formation and is a clear sign of insecurity. He put on a well rehearsed  tough guy, glowering, face to mask fear. The tell for a poker player is his looking down and scowling, not making eye contact. His followers have long missed that tell.

Patriotic Americans – conservative or liberal – do not negotiate with communist dictators who invade other countries. When specifically asked, he failed twice to support Ukraine.  He favors our enemy.

By pretending he can deal with Russia (without giving up Europe, whose interests he also ignored) Trump displayed delusions of grandeur. This is the guy who writes the North Korean dictator love letters to get things done.

Followers of that type of leader are typically authoritarian personalities themselves or people attracted to leaders with charismatic appeal. That is why his followers are not protesting his putting Patriotism second.

 Bragging about well attended rallies while doubling down, in the same thought, insisting Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Ohio displays senility or what is called distortion of reality. He often distorts reality and often dehumanizes people in an appeal to racists or the other categories of people he (and his followers) distort and scapegoat.

He talked of his persecution. A jury with Republicans convicted Trump  under a racketeering law and he says that is persecution. What it is is a delusion of persecution. In typical cases the gang members buy into that but in Trump’s case it’s simply a sign many followers also share from some form of persecution complex.

After 14 years and 60 failed votes to repeal another President’s health care plan (only now to admit the promised replacement was an undefined concept) he clearly demonstrated he suffers from a coping mechanism called projection as a defense. It allowed him to impress people  with claims he was smarter than Obama.

Now that we know it was a charade it’s clear he is not a serious man and his claims back then projection. That need to be seen as superior – to project – makes Trump an easy mark.

Trump forcefully made the case he is highly respected abroad. But he merely named one reviled dictator. It’s called deflection and he uses that a lot. See above about those attracted to a perceived strong man or a charismatic man. In this situation authoritarians will miss it too. Serious people would have addressed the issue. Who abroad respects him?

Misrepresenting that nations pay tariffs when in fact tariffs are built into the price consumers pay the company (like a sales tax) is a ploy. It plays on distrust of better educated experts or relies on how people buy into easy answers – to the detriment of their pocketbook. (Harris  knows how to deal with those types who compulsively lie and misrepresent. She has seen all sorts of personality disorders in her prosecution days. )

Coming to a debate and not laying out an economic plan is either a sign of senility or another sign of delusion of grandeur.

It was also telling that Trump took time to blame his “many” bad advisors but completely ignored the underlying accusations that he does not hold our men in uniform in high esteem. That again is deflection.

 Trump threatened to jail other candidates and their donors. This betrays fear and insecurity. It is called coercive control. Again, it impresses both fellow bullies and followers of charismatic leaders.

Harris advising people to go to Trump rallies was brilliant! It is called trivialization and was used to suggest that Trump is not worthy of consideration. I suspect she must be sure he will continue to say outrageous things to fill in the gaps in his often broken train of thought – thoughts tending to go back  to the past  perceived slights, getting even, and scapegoating.

Harris did her home work on what makes Trump tick to draw  him out so adroitly. She demonstrated her impressive intelligence and showed she will take practical positions to improve our life and country.

Besides focusing on us and showing she is a formidable leader, she shrugged off the biggest bully of the past decade or two and ate his lunch.

Conrad F. Cropsey

Albion

Editor:

As you may have heard, Hospice of Orleans has paused operations at the Martin-Linsin Residence due to low referrals and high operational costs.

A few of us who were recently employed would like to form a group, “Friends of Orleans Hospice & MLR” to see if we can turn this unfortunate event around. A lot of work, effort, money, support and love have went into creating the MLR. It would be tragic to see this irreplaceable local asset sit empty.

Last year, Hospice of Niagara stepped up to provide administrative services and clinical guidance. They were able to provide generous wage increases as well as hire on additional staff. It is unfortunate to see that only a couple months ago, we had such positive changes happening and an average of six to seven beds filled… to slowly watching referrals dry up and no new residents being admitted. As front-line care givers, it was our honor to take care of your loved ones, our neighbors, and this community.

As a community, we have already suffered the sale of the Orleans County Nursing Home, watched the ratings of local skilled-nursing facilities fall, and most recently have been dealing with the effects of COVA going under. Will the dream that built the Martin-Linsin Residence be the next to fade into the golden nostalgia of better days or is there something we can do as a community to rally behind Hospice of Orleans?

If you are interested or have already been involved in supporting Hospice of Orleans over the years, we would like to invite you and the public to meet Tuesday, September 17th at 6 p.m. to the Pullman Memorial Universalist Church to discuss, share information, and come up with ideas to continue to support these amazing services.

*This is not an official function of Hospice of Orleans, there will not be anyone from administration present to answer questions. If enough people are interested and we can get a group formed, hopefully in the future they would be willing to meet and provide some insight into what the future holds.

Dylan Miller

Albion

Editor:

Orleans County Democrats are alive and well. We are not in a “mess or shambles.” I’m not sure where Mr. Capurso is obtaining his information but obviously has not been given all the facts.

In July we held our 65th picnic which was attended by David Wagenhauser for Congress (24th District) along with some local Republican candidates who always support us. Earlier this year, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli was at the Hoag Library in Albion for a reception.

We have had a booth at the 4-H Fair for years, distribute literature and have registration forms available.

We have a website and Facebook and both are updated almost daily. We have emails for Friends of Democrats which we contact when we have events.

In the past we have attended Legislative Sessions and have tried to enact changes regarding the county legislators at large and we continue to try to make a change on this subject.

We have held pizza parties for Young Dems in Medina which was well attended.

At this time we are getting out information and signs for Harris/Walz, Gillibrand and Wagenhauser. I do admit that getting candidates to run for County offices is a daunting task. We do try.

 I’m not sure how many relatives you have in Orleans County but do encourage them to join us. Contact any committee member for time and place, we meet monthly.

Jeanne Crane

Waterport

Former Chairwoman of Orleans County Democratic Party

Editor:

It will take a strong and very accomplished woman like Harris to flush this toilet.

I was surprised a 30-year-old book on press limitations was recently cited to run down mainstream media. The problem analyzed was the economics behind what readers want to read about and how it’s reported. It was insightful at the time before there were any conservative outlets.

Unfortunately committed was the fact mainstream media have substantially beefed up their compliance departments in response. Omitted too was that newish conservative media seized on the paradigm and have proved willing to pay hundreds of millions in defamation settlements as a price of biased reporting and a big following.

In that vein I was sad to see someone I very much like say with definiteness that crime is up.  When Waltz said it was down, Fox had a big headline it was up but when I read the article is cited types of crime in three cities.

The Brennan Center at Columbia University has put together a multi-year trend analysis. Click here for the link.

The official reports for full year 2023 and midyear 2024 are not final as not every department nationwide is prompt. Also they have to be adjusted for state laws and categories. But the data so far show 11 of 12 categories down and the 30-year very sharp downward trend in both violent and property crimes continuing again. (Click here for link.)

Fox ignores this. Trump lies about it.

Fox did not report that when asked about his plan for child care  all Trump could say was we would have a great economy. Harris would use the proven child care credit.

Fox did not analyze that in his Biden debate Trump said we could give up on Ukraine and NATO since we “have” an ocean to protect us. But in this day of missiles, submarines satellites etc. he and his press forgot that is the same line we heard from some Reps and American Nazis in the 1930s before WW 11. (Biden – Harris keeping Russian aggression in Europe, with NATO help, contained is working. We started small and each time we let Ukraine get more aggressive Russia squeaks but it keeps backing down. The strategy is working and certainly not WWIII stuff as Trump now claims.)

The thought that if Trump goes away, his dangerous personality driven mishmash of lies and attempts to seize power regardless of our laws goes away. That is wrong, I think. By always playing both sides – Proud Boys, Christians Nationalists who would rewrite text book and the Constitution and lies generally, Project 2025, women’s issues, the fact his layers help pick a jury with several Republicans on it – he has allowed all sorts of fringe ideas to gain a strong American following. We have to consider this danger too as Fox and that ilk are not going away.

In some ways it’s similar to Reagan’s tax cut and “trickle-down economics.” That was always bad economics and only a short-term stimulus but the mantra persists in various form to this day as an article of faith. The middle class – lemmings marching to the sea – keeps voting for an economic program that puts more and more of the burden on it.

Trump and commercial enterprises like Fox and the expanded ultra rich Robber Baron class have let the genie out of the bottle. People you know and like have fallen for it and are too convinced to convince.

Remember every time Trump claims he would do something the first day, it means he is doing a Project 2025 end run on Congress  where he could get little done with permanent laws just like last time when both Republican houses for 2 years refused to pass his half-baked and nasty proposals other than the huge tax cut.

Alternately this weekend’s threat to personally jail election officials if he wins is possible. (One circulating fantasy is that 20% of Pa. mail-in voted are fraudulent but of course they have not been mailed out yet.) Trump could carry out his Day One threats if he declares an insurrection and suspends the law as he talked about last time.

On Tuesday listen to Harris. She is a proven executive. She has detailed plans to present to Congress  that are not based on third-world style hate and retribution. And the next day fact check both with a real independent fact-checking organization.

See who will work to lift us up to a better future. Who says the world stinks and everything revolves around him – who lets grudges consume him to the point the old Republican Party is extinct and the good things it stood for in that toilet.

Conrad F. Cropsey

Albion

Editor:

This election is essentially between one candidate who wants to create an authoritarian state and a candidate who will defend and protect our democracy.

Donald Trump has already attempted to overthrow our democracy by using illegal electors and political pressure to refuse to certify a fair and free election. We know that Mr. Trump gave classified information to Russia, stated he takes Vladimir Putin’s word over the entire U.S. intelligence community, and saluted a North Korean General while disrespecting U.S. military personnel.

We also know that Mr. Trump is a liar, a convicted felon and convicted sexual offender. Mr. Trump has not presented any policy positions other than to politicize the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense and other independent agencies. Furthermore, Mr. Trump wants to revamp civil service under Schedule F making employees loyal to him, not to the Constitution or the citizens they serve. Mr. Trump poses a serious threat to the rule of law, to our democracy and to the Constitution of the United States. He is running to be an authoritarian.

The Biden-Harris administration brought back manufacturing with the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act. Edwards Vacuum chose Genesee County for their new manufacturing plant because of that law, passed by Democrats.

Monroe County Republicans, in a recent comment section in Westside News (Aug. 25th issue), touted the benefits of the American Rescue Plan, (also passed by Democrats without any support from Republicans), which they stated allowed local communities in western New York to enhance transportation for seniors, enrich after school programs for our youth and provide more services for veterans among other benefits. Democrats passed the Pact Act, providing veterans with needed medical care over the objections of Republicans, like Elise Stefanik and Claudia Tenney.

On the immigration issue, President Biden proposed almost $14 billion to bolster security on the U.S. border with Mexico making this legislation one of the strongest immigration bill ever written. Both President Biden and Kamala Harris stated they would sign this bill but Republicans refused to vote for it because they plan to campaign on the issue rather than solve the problem.

If you are voting for the party that supports manufacturing, rebuilding our infrastructure, and respects law and order, our democracy and the Constitution, you are voting for Democrats.

William Fine

Brockport

Editor:

Over the past week, two noteworthy events happened to open our eyes.

First, Congresswoman Claudia Tenney brought forth her Border Security and Law Enforcement proposals. As stated in her article, she has visited both the northern and southern borders and convened with Customs and Border Protection.

Her Law Enforcement Plan will lend support to police so they can carry out their duties more effectively. Both plans were clearly explained if you clicked on the provided links.

In her news release, she cited the following:

“Since the start of the Biden-Harris administration, over 10 million illegal immigrants have entered our country, abusing our taxpayer-funded resources and wreaking havoc in our communities,” Tenney said. “Our law enforcement officers are also facing unprecedented challenges as violent crime surges and the Left seeks to undermine their ability to do their jobs safely and effectively. My plans offer a commonsense approach to securing our borders, stopping the influx of illegal immigrants, and supporting the brave men and women in law enforcement. I am committed to holding criminals accountable and ensuring our nation’s laws are upheld.”

For those people who still believe that Harris has effectively dealt with the border crisis, think again. The Mexican Cartels have not only brought in the drugs but military grade guns as well. The gun-running cartels act like terrorist cells.

The Central America Forward Program (which was previously cited as one of Kamala’s accomplishments) is still a work in progress and has met major setbacks due to corruption in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. It was also mentioned that Blas Nunez-Neto has worked out an arrangement with Mexico, permitting the US to send back (to their home countries) non-Mexican migrants. Good luck hunting them down.

The second major announcement this week was that The FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) has officially endorsed Trump as their candidate.

“Public safety and border security will be important issues in the last months of this campaign,” FOP National President Patrick Yoes said. “Our members carefully considered the positions of the candidates on the issues and there was no doubt—zero doubt—as to who they want as our President for the next four years: Donald J. Trump.”

As many of us have seen an uptick in local crime, it is probably safe to say if any emergency which threatened our safety emerged, we would call  911. This endorsement confirms that most policemen and women find their support with Trump. Therefore this statement is worthy of attention.

I am staying alert and as informed as possible. Weeding out the truth has become a daily mission for me.

Mary Mager

Fairport, formerly of Albion