Women’s golf

Why the excluded coverage in the Monday morning Golf Round Up? Swede Maja Stark, 25, cruises to a two-stroke win of the United States Women’s Open and all they write about is Scheffler Scheffler Schfeffler! It would be exciting to see Stark take on Scheffler on the brutally undulated Erin Hills! I’d pay to see that.

— Bob Ginn, Arcadia

Soul searching

I thought Matt Fleming’s article (June 1) was going to be a productive one, with the title, “Democrats need to do some real soul-searching.” I thought, “Good! We need that!” Instead, it was just a tiresome slog through obvious and already well-known problems within the Democratic Party, without offering any suggestions whatsoever for actual solutions.

We (Democrats) took our lumps last November. Mistakes were made, we know that, and Trump, to our horror, snuck in. Fleming complained about Biden’s mental acuity, but is completely silent about Trump’s obvious severe mental problems as well. Biden, in his four years, at least did a competent job in running the country and left us in a fairly good condition. Trump is hell-bent on destroying everyone but the super-rich in our country (and the world) after only four months.

Fleming also whined about the problems in Sacramento. We already know all about this, sir! And we Dems will deal with Newsom and his failings, I promise you. All Fleming can do is talk about “woke” issues, which is again a tired topic, when we are now much more interested now in constructive solutions to solve our many problems, and so tired of MAGA talking points.

His article was a completely useless piece of junk.

— William Stremel, South Pasadena

Equally American

I’m ancient. I graduated from UCLA in 1960. I was the first in my family to attend college. My grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Italy. My parents didn’t graduate from high school. There were no separate DEI graduation celebrations. None were required. We all believed we were equally Americans, despite our different heritages.

God bless America.

—Joseph F. Paggi Jr., Pasadena

Climage baggage

Re “Will Newsom ever ditch his far-left climate baggage” (June 5):

The columnist should stick to writing political fiction stories and avoid the real world of climate change and energy policy.

Having spent most of my 80 years living in the L.A. basin region and breathing in the air all those years, I appreciate the clean air and fewer smoggy days, the result of science and courageous elected leaders who were willing to challenge major polluters to make less polluting vehicles and requiring oil refineries to control the amount of contaminants they spew in our air. The columnist considers these leaders and their supporters, like me, as radicals, the French Laundry set, and the Brahmin left. I don’t consider myself a radical or a Brahmin, and I certainly could not afford to eat at the French Laundry.

The columnist who probably did not live in the L.A. area in the ’40s, ’50s or ’60s, never had to breathe in smog and suffer from it. I recommend that he spend a month living in Riverside or the Port of Los Angeles, where polluting tractor-trailers frequently operate. He should try living next to a refinery or next to any of the freeways that crisscross L.A. County.

— Larry Naritomi, Monterey Park

Shaking down

In her column about L.A. shaking down businesses on behalf of public sector labor unions, Susan Shelley said “Unions are big money donors to Democratic Party politicians. They get what they want, or a different politician gets the money.” In essence they are buying votes for their constituency, the union members, which while being unethical is not illegal. The money goes into the elected officials’ campaign chests and can be used for reelection and when they’re termed out advancement to higher elected office, i.e. City Council to Assembly to state Senate to supervisor to Congress to U.S. Senate to governor to vice president to president. But what does a president have to sell? He has the unfettered ability to pardon anyone from any federal conviction and while that too is highly unethical it’s also legal. But where does that money go? There is no higher office for him to run for. I guess he just pockets it.

— Ron Garber, Duarte