Opinion

To the editor: Seasoned Republicans are leaving the party in droves because, like Miles Taylor, they believe the party is lost to extremists of the far right, and it can “no longer be reformed from within,” so must be “countered from without.” Taylor, who was Trump’s chief of staff for Homeland Security, admits that, when Trump became president, he believed this bigoted man was a glitch, not the future of the party, but recent events of the open targeting and murders of people of color finally made him take a hard look at what had been his beloved party. Taylor still believes in the millions of Americans are who are truly centrist or, dare he say, liberal Republicans, but he is afraid that too many are too loyal to the idea that Republicans are live-or-die party supporters to hope for these same people to become aware of the racist, sexist rhetoric and movement they have helped spawn to change the party’s trajectory toward autocracy.

Georgia voters didn’t get much of a break from election talk on the day after the Tuesday primary in which Republican Gov. Brian Kemp demolished GOP challenger David Perdue and Democrat Stacey Abrams finally clinched a nomination waiting for her after no other members of her party jumped in.

To the editor: In an April 29 letter to the editor, the writer introduced county readers to the upcoming August vote on Kansas bills SCR1602 and HCR5003, approved by both houses of the Kansas Legislature in support of an amendment to the Bill of Rights of the Kansas state constitution. This amendment, now commonly called the “Value Them Both” (VTB) amendment, would ensure that Kansas lawmakers can define, regulate and ultimately oversee abortion in all its aspects in the state of Kansas.

This letter is in response to Mr. Howards’ remarks regarding politics and churches in the May 12 issue of the Times. Mr. Howards says that we should take a deep look into the Bible and locate chapter and verse where it condemns abortion. Here is your answer Mr. Howards: “Thou shall not kill.”