To the editor: Glorious George Skelton column on Kamala Harris and the governorship of California (“Harris hasn’t shown much interest in being California governor,” Could 26). It’s a bit miserable whenever you understand that the potential subject to date appears to be populated by such mediocre profession politicians. Love him or hate him, I’d prefer to see one other Jerry Brown, and even an Arnold Schwarzenegger. The following governor must be keen to shake issues up and, when obligatory, defy their get together’s orthodoxy. I don’t see Harris, Katie Porter or Antonio Villaraigosa becoming that invoice.
Fred Gober, Playa Vista
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To the editor: What’s it with all of the anti-Harris articles? As former district legal professional for San Francisco and district legal professional and senator for California, Harris has executed greater than sufficient in her profession to qualify. However together with these spectacular roles, she has extra credentials than different potential candidates on points similar to gun management, managing the legal component in San Francisco and later the entire state and standing as much as main firms to cease them from screwing over California residents.
Nick Aquilino, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Skelton is each incorrect and lacking the purpose when he calls the cost that Harris ought to’ve spoken up about President Biden’s psychological decline a “low-cost shot.” Skelton’s suggestion that any politician will be forgiven for retaining silent about their boss offers Harris a go the place one will not be due.
Harris had the obligation to place nation over private ambition. The price the Democratic Social gathering and the nation have paid for her silence (and, in equity, that of numerous others) has been and can proceed to be just too excessive to provide ambition a go.
Had elevating the alarm completed her off politically, Harris — already justly faulted for having so ineptly sought the presidency and for missing any imaginative and prescient of why she wished it within the first place — would have been in a position to enter the personal sector along with her head held excessive, and little question to appreciable monetary revenue. That she remains to be thought of (and, by some, sought) for any political workplace is gloomy and distressing.
David Van Iderstine, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Skelton references California’s 187,000 homeless as “the very best within the nation — solely partly as a result of we’ve received the most important inhabitants.” This isn’t solely California’s downside. Homeless folks from everywhere in the nation come to California due to our nicer local weather, particularly now that there are hurricanes and floods in so many different states. The federal authorities ought to be serving to with this downside. Underneath the present president, it’s going to by no means occur.
Our state has many budgetary issues, infrastructure being one of the crucial necessary in addition to homelessness, however there may be little assist in sight from Harris or some other potential candidate.
Lynne Shapiro, Marina del Rey
