Letters for March 8, 2018

Will Milo really run?

Re: “Run Milo Run” by Raheem F. Hosseini (Feature, March 1):

Thank you for this thoughtful piece on someone who sounds like a true leader with a core of common sense and humanity. It doesn’t sound very likely that he is interested. [See page 8 in this week’s issue.] Some of us are asking for the current inspector general and former Chief of Sac PD Rick Braziel to run for sheriff. He has indicated interest in the past and has qualities similar to those you featured in this piece. Qualities and experience that would be a welcomed contrast to Sheriff Scott Jones.

Danielle Best

Sacramento

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San Joaquin needs a renegade

Re: “Run Milo Run” by Raheem F. Hosseini (Feature, March 1):

Hoping we have a worthy renegade going against Sheriff Moore here in San Joaquin County. Time to clean house. We have lost one of the best ME ever, along with his assistant due to the corruption that Sheriff Moore has inflicted on the Sheriff’s Department and Coroner’s Office.

Richard Selleseth

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Democrats’ delegate system: ‘evil’

Re “Can California’s fourth congressional district be flipped?” by John Flynn (News, March 1):

The delegates at San Diego have successfully guaranteed another McClintock term in office. This is the problem with the endorsement: The days of anointing a candidate and expecting everyone to follow in lockstep ended a long time ago. All of those campaign volunteers and staffers that worked for Bates and Calderon will not work for Morse after June. Many people, myself included, are not so certain that Morse could beat Bates and Calderon in a clean primary contest to be decided by voters. The delegate system was an evil necessity before the electronic age, but its usefulness has long since passed on a state level. It feels like 2016 all over again, and the election results in November will reflect that. Please learn the lesson that the infrastructures that support the candidates are more important than the candidates themselves, and preserving their involvement through November should be the first priority.

Scott Berrian

Jackson

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Will CA-04 Dems self-destruct?

Re “Can California’s fourth congressional district be flipped?” by John Flynn (News, March 1):

That last-ditch attack made Bateson and Calderon look ridiculous. I think Dems will get behind Morse in a big way—at least I hope so.

Jo Eliza

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One Dem’s dream list

Re “Tack left and boo Trump” by Ben Christopher (News, March 1):

We’re usually the maid after the Republicans wreck the hotel room, but we stand for equal rights, a living wage, the middle class, Medicare for all, an end to the drug war, common sense gun laws, a tax code that doesn’t favor the uber-wealthy and we believe in healthy school funding and that climate change is real. Tell me, what do the Republicans stand for!?!?!? TAX CUTS!!!!!

Brad Oates

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Citrus Heights’ Getaround

Re “Rideshare on the cheap” by Mark Heckey (Beats, February 15):

Odd [how] the article didn’t mention how to get more info or the name of the app. (It’s “Microtransit,” BTW).

Steve Hall

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