The silence ‘has been deafening’
Re: “Boulder attack should deepen support for the Jewish community,” June 4 editorial
Thank you! As a Jewish woman, I feel incredibly seen and supported by you publishing this editorial. The silence from “friends” has been deafening, and your words were unequivocal in urging the difference between supporting the American Jewish community and one’s feelings about the war.
This nuance is much appreciated; it sounds so much like common sense, and it has been so painful that others can’t seem to hold all of these truths at the same time and are so dismissive of our experience, fear, and pain.
Thank you so much.
Meridith Jaffe, Denver
The business of vetoes
Re: “Polis missed an opportunity to stand with workers by vetoing Worker Protection Act,” June 1 commentary
If Gov. Jared Polis had not vetoed the Worker Protection Act, Colorado’s Independence Institute would have garnered signatures for a ballot initiative that would have outlawed mandatory union payroll deductions. There’s a good chance such an initiative would have passed, as many Coloradans believe they should not be forced to pay union dues against their wishes. Wisconsin’s 2011 labor law changes resulted in a steep, rapid drop-off in union membership, largely due to the outlawing of mandatory union fee payroll deductions.
Since 1943, Colorado’s Labor Peace Act (LPA) has largely kept the peace between unions and employers by requiring 75% of employees to vote for union membership in a second round of voting. The LPA is a compromise, and Gov. Polis wisely decided that neither side would get everything they wanted.
John Contino, Golden
Re: “Polis vetoes rent algorithm bill,” May 30 news story
Gov. Jared Polis recently vetoed two bipartisan bills — one aimed at protecting Coloradans from surprise ambulance bills and another seeking to regulate rent-setting algorithms used by corporate landlords. By striking them down, Polis continues to make it crystal clear who he stands with.
Polis masquerades as a progressive, but his progressivism stops where it hits his own identity. On everything else, he’s a clear-cut agent of big money, pushing libertarian policies that protect the wealthy at the expense of everyday people. To him, Coloradans always came second to big business.
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