As Elizabeth Schneider (“District elections are here, like it or not,” April 20) and her ilk would say, Santa Marians such as myself are “three steps behind where we are now.” I am sure that is akin to the excuses that the “democratic government of Venezuela” gives for its failed people’s trampling ways? Though, like […]
Robert Scott
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Let the people decide
Gale McNeeley seems overjoyed that free and democratic rule has finally come to Santa Maria (“Help our leaders to create fair districts,” March 23). Except that he as well as Mrs. Putney-Davalos, Jason Dominguez, and Gil Sanchez all seem to dismiss the un-democratic shake-down tactics that are being used to “convince” the people of Santa […]
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‘Capps for Congress’ doesn’t like questioning
Santa Maria
Ed. note: Robert Scott’s letter first appeared in New Times, the Sun’s sister paper to the north, on March 29. It garnered a couple of responses printed in the April 5 issue. Here is the initial letter and the follow-up. I have been banned from Facebook! Let me be more precise: I have been […]
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Your silence speaks volumes
Santa Maria
If an average person sold automatic weapons to known drug cartels, notorious gang members, and assassins, federal law enforcements officials would be all over them with possible criminal charges, incarceration, and accomplice charges in the resulting crimes. Yet when that person is the attorney general of the United States, the media and our local Congresswoman […]