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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon LETTERS Continued from page 2 s s s To the Editor: For over four years the most powerful security agencies of the Obama administration and their comrades in the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, the mainstream media, have attempted to put President Trump, his family, and his staff in prison or drive them out of office. Now the American people are expected to stand passively by while Joe Biden and his San Francisco minder ascend to rule America and implement the statist collectivist utopia the Left demands. Socialism with steel teeth. Larry Benson s s s To the Editor: What if the state of Oregon asserts it knows what is best for you and your ability to earn a liv- ing or live a full life, but that same state govern- ment can9t maintain it9s computer systems, can9t manage a healthcare exchange, can9t manage men- tal health services, can9t manage foster care, can9t manage Oregon9s forests, can9t track sex offend- er9s, can9t process unemployment claims and lacks transparency? What if Article X-A of the Oregon Constitution requires the Governor to get a three-fifths approval from both houses of the Oregon Legislature to extend any declared emergency beyond thirty days? What if the Oregon Supreme Court engaged in judi- cial gymnastics to strike down a lower courts ruling that Governor Brown9s emergency powers expired in May? What if the Oregon Supreme Court claimed the written words in Oregon9s constitution for emer- gency powers don9t mean what they say? What if five of seven justices on the Oregon Supreme Court were appointed by Kate Brown? What if the court handed the Governor unlimited power over you and I? What if a Philadelphia federal judge ruled that Philadelphia9s lockdowns and social distancing are unconstitutional by reasoning <such a dramatic inversion of the concept of liberty in a free society as to be nearly presumptively unconstitutional=? What if U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr stated, <stay-at-home orders is like house arrest= and excluding slavery, <this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history=? What if Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito stated the pan- demic has <highlighted disturbing trends= in the law such as <dominance of lawmaking by executive fiat rather than legislation= and <previously unimagi- nable restrictions on individual liberty=? What if the virus is real but the numbers are not? What if the New York Times reported that corona- virus tests are over-sampled during analysis, caus- ing positive results for genetic fragments that pose no particular risk of the virus in ninety percent of positive test results? What if Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently tweeted, <something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for COVID four times today. Two tests came back negative, two tests came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD=? What if personal responsibility and free choice based on the best information from the government is our natural and constitutional right as free people? What if we are being stomped on by our government? JK Wells s 18 WED s To the Editor: Recently, the executive committee of the Sisters Folk Festival made the difficult decision to restruc- ture its staff configuration, eliminating the devel- opment director position in response to the signifi- cant financial challenge presented by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The annual Sisters Folk Festival isn9t just a com- munity celebration with a huge economic impact to local businesses; it is also the SFF organiza- tion9s single largest revenue generator, funding the lion9s share of our programming and operational costs. Despite the loss of that revenue in 2020, we were able to persevere with the help of the Payroll Protection Program, $195K in emergency funding through the CARES Act, and deep cuts to staffing hours across the board. There are no guarantees there will be additional economic relief for busi- nesses next year 4 or an end to the pandemic 4 and the survival of the organization is our number one priority. We are so grateful to our outgoing development director, Steven Remington, not only for the great work he9s done during his time with SFF, but also for his ongoing professionalism and dedication to the nonprofit organization as he assists staff through the transition. His wry wit and years of industry experience will be greatly missed around the office. SFF will continue to serve the Sisters commu- nity in the best way possible throughout the dura- tion of this pandemic, building on the recent suc- cess of our Close To Home Concerts and Creativity Camps with more day camps for kids next spring Entertainment & Events NOV s Paulina Springs Books Virtual Event Books In Common Regional Literary Event Series with Pam Houston & Amy Irvine 6:30 p.m. For more information call 541-549- 0866 or go to BooksinCommonNW.com. MidOregon Credit Union Virtual Event Understanding Credit 4 p.m. Learn about different types of credit and how 19 THURS to build a good credit history. Register at www.midoregon. com/education/fi nancial-workshops.shtml. Paulina Springs Books Virtual Event Indie Playlist Presents a Conversation with Roxane Gay & Okey Ndibe 4 p.m. For more information call 541-549-0866 or go to www.PaulinaSpringsBooks.com. and summer, as well as music clubs, art classes, more outdoor, socially distanced concerts at our backyard venue. Stay safe and we will get through this crisis together! Crista Munro Executive Director Sisters Folk Festival s s s To the Editor: In a recent letter to the editor, Michael Wells submitted some rather inflammatory statements regarding President Trump that were simply false or misleading. Mr. Wells first indicated that when and if Biden takes office that we should all engage in civility, cooperation and concessions. Does he mean like the lack of civility and coop- eration we have seen from the left for the last four years? He indicated that President Trump is patently unfit for office and his election was a nightmare. Does Mr. Wells know who thought his election was a nightmare except the far left who never accepted his election? Mr. Wells is good at name calling such as serial sexual assaults on women. He also calls the president unfit and racist. He goes on to say the president encourages corruption and violence. Laughable. He indicated that the Trump administration engaged in targeted kidnapping and tearing chil- dren from their parent and putting them in cages. Perhaps Mr. Wells should do some research here. It was the Obama administration who built the cages. Our president has gone out of his way to provide help for these children. He continues to say the response to the pan- demic was gross mismanagement. However, it was Biden who called the president xenophobic when he started shutting down our borders to keep the virus at bay. Trump didn9t lie, he simply did not want chaos. It was Pelosi who went into the throngs of Chinese people in Chinatown telling the people it was good to come there and not be afraid of it. And then Michael calls the president a charlatan. Michael stated further that the President9s support- ers are claiming that Biden9s win was illegitimate. You mean like when Al Gore in 2000 fought the election for 47 days? Mr. Wells alluded, that when losers only recognize they have lost is when we have democracy. Again, laughable. Does he mean like the last four years that the left won9t recognize they lost in 2016? The violence, vitriol and conflict See LETTERS on page 23 Happy Thanksgiving from e staff of The Nugget NOV Paulina Springs Books Virtual Event Books In Common Regional Literary Event Series with David Joy 6:30 24 p.m. For more information call 541-549-0866 or go to TUES BooksinCommonNW.com. We will be closed Wed. & Thurs., Nov. 25-26 to celebrate with our families. 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