Dear Friends

Following is a letter to the editor I have submitted. It may or may not be published. I don't expect my sharing it with a few hundred people who still read the paper and/or those who read my blog to make a  difference in the upcoming election. I am sharing it to record where I stood at this moment in my life. Silence can be misunderstood for, or means approval. I also called my Congressman Ken Calvert, and, not surprisingly, his office said he had no comment.

Several years ago, I accompanied my beloved adopted son to Puerto Rico where, among other things, we visited Ponce, the birthplace of his birth mother. The “joke” at the Madison Square Garden rally described that part of our country as “a floating island of garbage”. J.D. Vance said later that we need to “stop getting offended at every little thing”. I am not only offended. I am disgusted.

A Trump adviser tried to assure us that “this joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign”. A strong leader, a real “macho man” would speak for himself. He clearly is neither. By his silence, he is endorsing all the angry vile attacks that filled the arena before his entrance to the stage. And then he continued to pile on.

And he expects us to believe that he will unite this country?

John Saville

Corona, Ca.