Wednesday, November 18, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LETTERS
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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MidOregon Credit Union Virtual Event Understanding
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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
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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
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