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 once you understand that the potential discipline up to now appears to be populated by such mediocre profession politicians. Love him or hate him, I’d wish to see one other Jerry Brown, and even an Arnold Schwarzenegger. The subsequent governor must be keen to shake issues up and, when obligatory, defy their occasion’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 lawyer for San Francisco and district lawyer and senator for California, Harris has carried out greater than sufficient in her profession to qualify. However together with these spectacular roles, she has extra credentials than different potential candidates on points equivalent to gun management, managing the prison aspect in San Francisco and later the entire state and standing as much as main companies 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 could be forgiven for retaining silent about their boss offers Harris a move the place one isn’t due.
Harris had the responsibility to place nation over private ambition. The associated fee the Democratic Occasion 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 offer ambition a move.
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 needed it within the first place — would have been capable of enter the non-public sector together with her head held excessive, and little question to appreciable monetary revenue. That she continues to be thought of (and, by some, sought) for any political workplace is unhappy 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 drawback. 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 needs to be serving to with this drawback. Underneath the present president, it is going to by no means occur.
Our state has many budgetary issues, infrastructure being one of the vital necessary in addition to homelessness, however there may be little assist in sight from Harris or another potential candidate.
Lynne Shapiro, Marina del Rey
