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Secretary of State. She reported to a male
president, as too many people believe a
woman office-holder should. She lost the
votes of many white, middle- and upper-
class women and men who may never be
ready for a female president.
Many Sanders voters and white voters
who didn’t want a woman president proba-
bly did not vote at all or voted for one of the
minor party candidates, rather than Trump.
Young people who knew Hillary Clinton
only as a caricature of a candidate, invented
by Republicans, may not have voted, either.
This damaged Clinton in states where it
has become harder to vote at all because of
voter suppression measures such as voter-
ID laws, the end of early voting and fewer
polling places. Trump won the election in
the Electoral College by a slim margin of
votes in three states — Wisconsin, Penn-
sylvania and Michigan — where voter sup-
pression played a major role.
Instead of calling names, join groups
formed to fight the current administra-
tion’s programs. Knock on doors, sign pe-
titions! Fight back!
Dina Wills
Eugene
PUSH BACK
Pushing back against ideas proposed by
the current administration that don’t make
sense is our civic duty (“Pushing Back
Against Trump,” Oct. 5). This is why the
health care bills failed. It is how the cuts to
SNAP, Medicaid and Medicare in the cur-
rent budget can be stopped.
But we have to speak up to our rep-
resentatives and senators about these
schemes that hurt the majority of Ameri-
cans. Make a call, write a letter — it makes
a difference!
Willie Dickerson
Snohomish, Washington
TRUMPISM AT HOME
I have worked for Lane County for 28
years at Developmental Disabilities, and
over that time my union co-workers and I
agreed to small or no raises many times in
exchange for a good health care package.
If we agree to what the county is offering
now, many county workers will not really
get a raise, since their take-home pay will
stay about the same or go down.
The county commissioners and the
county administrator gave themselves and
all the managers a big raise of about 19 per-
cent, using a study comparing the wages
of managers similar to Lane County; yet,
when we did the same sort of study for the
workers of Lane County, they didn’t accept
it, but did another study, on county time,
comparing us to counties that are smaller
and therefore do not pay as well.
The Lane County administrator and
commissioners say that equity is impor-
tant to them. I hope they show us such,
by becoming a model employer and giv-
ing workers a pay increase, and continuing
to offer us a good and affordable benefit
package.
Sue Barnhart
Eugene
STOP THE HATE
I am not an undocumented immigrant. I
am an American citizen.
As a result, I have never had to make
the choice to sacrifice the lives of my fam-
ily in the attempt to save them. I have nev-
er experienced radical violence due to my
religion, ancestry or political views. I have
never experienced the terror of being sent
back to a country I have never known. I
have never witnessed a lost generation of
children due to years and years of war.
I cannot pretend that I can even par-
tially know or truly understand the depths
of despair that accompanies the lives of so
many who are simply trying to survive.
Although I freely admit that I do not
have the answers, I do know that erupting
in hate is not one of them. If we are to re-
main a great nation, we must find it within
ourselves to muster up the humanity that I
know exists.
I understand that we cannot shelter the
world, but we can cease to hate those that
need shelter.
Melissa Quinn
Dexter
Keep Your
Sunny Side Up!
The music of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson
Thu, November 2, 7:30 pm - cabaret seating
Sun, November 5, 3:00 pm - concert seating
Free Jazz tickets for Students program
Coming up at The Shedd
11.4 Asherie & Gardner
11.9 Siri Vik: Sure On This
Shining Night: Samuel
Barber & Aaron Copland
11.11 Alejandro Escovedo
Burn Something Beautiful
11.15 Tony Glausi I’ll Be Home
for Christmas
11.17 Carl Woideck: Remember-
ing Charles Mingus
11.24 Béla Fleck &
Abigail Washburn
12.1-17 MUSICAL: Singin’ In
The Rain (9 performances)
12.4 SYJO FALL ‘17
12.5 Shedd Choral Society
12.6 & 10 The Jazz Kings: An Old-
Fashioned Christmas
1.11 Beamer & Kapono
1.13 Victor Wooten Trio
1.20 Blues Harp Blowout 2018
1.24 Ladysmith Black Mambazo
1.25 Dave Grisman Quintet
3.1 Taj Mahal
The Shedd Community Music School
Music classes & private lessons: 541.434.7015 / registrar@theshedd.net
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