LET TERS
YOU CAN CUT IT WITH A STICK
Thursday’s Eugene Weekly (Sept. 21)
brought a much-needed update on Scobert
Park.
We learned that a lot of bad shit goes
down there, it’s been going on for a long
time, nobody’s had any idea what to do
about it in the past and there are no good
ideas now — but it doesn’t matter, because
the city can’t afford to do anything anyway.
However, they’re going to start talk-
ing about it more soon, but nobody knows
when. Despite the nebulous state of the sit-
uation, there is a plan. According to a Parks
and Rec landscape architect, “the idea is to
engage the neighborhood at a very deep
level around why we need to do this, how
we need to do it and what creates the best
outcome.”
I’m not sure what “this” is, but as long
as there’s a plan I’m sure it will work out
great.
Despite the dearth of information on the
ostensible main topic, we did learn a lot
about a fellow named Jeremy Owen. Jer-
emy lives in west Eugene and sold drugs in
the park growing up. He got good grades
but that didn’t keep him out of jail. He
did get released early for good behavior,
though, and now he has a job in a mill dry-
ing wood. He likes it.
That’s a nice story. I’m happy for Jer-
emy.
Bill Shaw
Eugene
rables” were essentially told, “You’d better
vote for this awful candidate who doesn’t
represent you, because otherwise, the rac-
ist, sexist, narcissistic buffoon will get
elected and we can’t let THAT happen.”
Looking at the manipulative, good
cop/bad cop ploy being used on them,
many fine American voters said, “Fuck
this shit! I’m voting for the asshole.” And
THAT is what happened.
Defeating Trump should have been a
slam-dunk. Russian meddling and fake news
not withstanding, a worthy candidate should
have been able to mop the floor with Trump’s
silly hair. If we’re going to confine Trump to
a one-term presidency, the DNC needs to do
some serious soul searching and nominate
candidates who can credibly claim to repre-
sent the people and not the big corporations
and increased militarism that have tradition-
ally been championed by the Republicans.
Robert Bolman
Eugene
A GREAT NOTION
ELECT THE ASSHOLE
In response to Jerry Ritter’s letter (Sept.
14) explaining Hillary’s defeat and other
letters in response, I’d like to offer my as-
sessment of “what happened”:
Looking forward to having cushy jobs in
a Hillary Clinton administration, Debbie Was-
serman Schultz and others inside the DNC in-
sisted on giving the nomination to an extreme-
ly unpopular, distrusted, corporate aligned,
militarist candidate — even though they were
being handed a hugely popular, Trump-de-
stroying machine named Bernie Sanders.
Millions of middle American voters
who are not explicitly racist, sexist “deplo-
It is a political and moral affront to
the majority of citizens who have ex-
pressed over and over again a preference
to change the name of Broadway Plaza to
Kesey Square to deny their will over and
over again. Not only Mr. Kesey but the
Kesey Family itself has positively contrib-
uted and continue to positively contribute
mightily to our community.
Clearly, the net worth of those seeking
the name change is inferior to those who
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