To the Editor:
Re “A Startling Admission From a G.O.P. Senator: ‘We Are All Afraid’” (information article, nytimes.com, April 17):
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, says “we’re all afraid.” However she just isn’t alone. We the persons are additionally afraid.
We the folks need our democracy; we would like our authorities to be for the folks and never for billionaire nihilistic libertarians.
We wish competent professionals to run our authorities, not incompetent political sycophants.
Senator Murkowski, please preserve talking out, and vote towards all of the undemocratic measures such because the SAVE Act, which might require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Communicate out each time you understand one thing just isn’t good legislation.
We the folks urge your colleagues to hitch you in standing agency for our democracy.
Alice Schaffer Smith
Palo Alto, Calif.
The author is the chief director of the Nationwide Voter Corps.
To the Editor:
Sure, we must always all ship a thanks to Senator Lisa Murkowski for talking the reality. Her frankness and honesty are each considerably stunning and invigorating!
Whereas the Trump administration is an abomination of corruption and ailing will, we’re higher than that. She is best than that.
Colby Allerton
Redondo Seaside, Calif.
To the Editor:
Senator Lisa Murkowski says she and her colleagues are afraid of retribution from Donald Trump in the event that they communicate out towards him. So what? We’re all afraid.
Your job as a senator has simply been expanded to that of a warrior. You and your colleagues must struggle like hell as if our nation’s future relies upon upon it. As a result of it does.
Doug Williams
Minneapolis
To the Editor:
If Senator Lisa Murkowski desires to do the proper factor and make a distinction, it’s time for her to depart the Republican Celebration and develop into an unbiased — caucusing with the Democrats, as Senators Bernie Sanders and Angus King do. In any other case, the hand-wringing, whereas welcome, will accomplish nothing.
To the Editor:
Re “Trump Needs Sixfold Improve in Funds to Detain Immigrants” (entrance web page, April 8):
The Trump administration has justified cuts to public well being, training and worldwide help applications within the identify of “authorities effectivity.” On the identical time, it’s passing billions of taxpayer {dollars} to non-public jail executives to increase an immigration incarceration system that’s infamous for abuse, mismanagement and waste.
The non-public jail executives who run 90 p.c of immigration detention personally pocket tens of millions in public funds by reducing prices via understaffing, overcrowding and denying minimal providers like appropriate meals and medical care.
These ICE services aren’t simply abusive. They’re additionally ineffective and wasteful. Whereas community-based alternate options to detention like case administration applications price solely $14 a day per participant and have returned a 100% court docket look fee, detaining one grownup immigrant prices greater than $160 a day.
Moreover, the cities and cities meant to deal with and employees these new services have little curiosity in funding bonuses for out-of-state executives. From Leavenworth, Kan., to southwestern Wyoming to Newark, N.J., folks throughout the nation are preventing again towards ICE’s non-public jail growth and its damaged guarantees of financial growth occasions for native staff.
These communities have made their voices clear. We don’t want extra non-public prisons that revenue off human struggling.
Medha Raman
Anthony Enriquez
The writers are attorneys at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
Too A lot Noise
To the Editor:
Re “Live shows Shake, Rattle and Roll City Oasis, Splitting Neighbors” (entrance web page, April 19):
I and numerous different New Yorkers sympathize with neighborhoods like Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, affected by unrelenting noise throughout dwell out of doors live performance occasions.
New Yorkers are by no means promised quiet in the very best of circumstances, however that’s the reason we’ve got the New York Noise Code. Occasions all year long in my Inwood neighborhood in Manhattan exceed the code limits and hurt public well being. The police do little to cease it.
This drawback won’t be resolved till we make this electoral problem clear to our political leaders.
This has nothing to do with Not in My Again Yard. It has the whole lot to do with Not in My Ear Drum.
Ted Gallagher
Paris
