Letters for December 1, 2016

Still in Sac

Re “Make America dumb again” by Raheem F. Hosseini and John Flynn (SN&R News, November 24):

Trump announced he is not hiring Michelle Rhee for Department of Education Director and she stated she was not interested in the position after meeting with Trump. Too bad, because if she had been hired for the job it meant both Rhee and K.J. would leave town just like the Maloofs. K.J. doesn’t even bother to show up the majority of the time for Tuesday night city council meetings and Darrell Steinberg already started working on mayoral duties several months ago. Why is K.J. still collecting a paycheck if he is not doing his job?

Colleen Whalen

Sacramento

To better health

Re “A place to go” by Corey Rodda and Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R News, November 24):

Thanks for sharing the opening of a modern mental health facility in Sacramento. It seems to me, like many others, that there cannot be enough mental “health.” So having new, easily accessible and affordable resources to attend to brain health is commendable. I differ with [Darrell] Steinberg’s closing remarks about his daughter in this article. This does seem typical of a bad family mental-health pattern, which appears prominent to me. “Everybody knows one” might be better put as “everybody is one,” including the Mr. Steinbergs, the Mr. Trumps and workers in the mental health system themselves.

Claire Warshaw

Sacramento

Election trickery

Re “Not their president” by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R News, November 17):

Some people are still saying Donald Trump won the election. For all you braindead nonthinkers and Republicans, Donald Trump is losing the presidential election by 2 million votes; Hillary Clinton, the winner of the 2016 presidential election, is ahead by 2 million votes. But what difference does it make when another election has been turned upside down by Republican’s and their legislative trickery?

Ron Lowe

Nevada City

Correction

Re: “Throwing flames” by John Flynn (SN&R News, November 24):

The story incorrectly stated that Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Capt. Michelle Eidam confirmed the employment of Don Martin, whose Facebook posts have come under question. A different SMFD employee confirmed Martin’s employment. SN&R regrets the error.