Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor - Redistricting, freedom, Dallas shootings, Texas leaders, guns
Readers criticize partisan redistricting; question the editorial on freedom; blame the mayor and city manager for not doing more to help the Dallas Police Department; remind those who criticize Texas leaders that we elected them; and support gun control.
Police tape flutters at the scene scene of a shooting in the 8300 block of Towns St. in Hamilton Park on July 5, 2021, in Dallas. Five people were shot as a party wound down about 11:15 p.m. on July Fourth. Three of those have died.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
Opinion
Letters to the Editor Three cheers to serving as a volunteer registrar, Joe Straus’ column on transgender children and Tom Thumb
Readers appreciate being able to help others with the voting process, Joe Straus writing about acceptance and Tom Thumb for its vaccination efforts.
Art Kaplan (left), and his wife, Roz Kaplan, of Richardson, Texas, check-in guest before a deputy voters registrar class.(Andy Jacobsohn / Staff Photographer)
1:01 AM on May 22, 2021 CDT
1 Serving as a volunteer deputy registrar It’s been a gratifying volunteer experience to serve Dallas County as a volunteer deputy registrar for the last three years. In various venues such as outdoor events, high schools, etc., I’m able to help newly qualified voters, Texas newcomers and others. Some weren’t familiar with Texas’ voting registration process. Others have seen online that they can print and mail an application. It’s exciting to see their enthusiasm about becoming a voter.
Re: ‘How moderates broke logjam on relief,’ Wednesday news story.
Thank you for publishing this story about the eight centrist lawmakers from both parties who forged a compromise deal on COVID-19 relief.
I think most Americans are weary of hearing constant attacks by one party on the other, one lawmaker on another. In our work lives, we are given assignments that require working with colleagues whose approaches or perspectives do not match ours. We should expect no less of our lawmakers.
Lawmakers’ constituents have full-time work, family and personal commitments, and do not need the additional burden of being asked to listen to constantly battling representatives, who themselves need to remember that they are on the same team different perspectives, sometimes drastically so, but the same team.