‘Park’ Is Gone
East Hampton
February 13, 2024
To the Editor:
Herrick Park should be (unfortunately) renamed Herrick Sports. The “park” is gone. Two (not one) basketball courts, two (not one) baseball diamonds, one soccer/football field, and several tennis courts take up most of what was once green open space.
The children’s play area with swings and slides has been moved back away from Newtown Lane and is now squished between a baseball diamond and the basketball courts. How uncomfortable is that! The swings are so close to the baseball diamond that it’s potentially dangerous should a stray baseball come flying.
In the past, families would park on Newtown Lane, take children and strollers out of the car, and easily walk to the swings. Now getting to the swings is a hassle. They have to walk past the basketball courts, walk up the path to the police shed, cross over, and finally arrive at the swings with children, strollers, and whatever else they are carrying. It is a hassle. Take a good look, reader, and you shall see.
What will happen to the tents that used to go up — the art fairs, the tickets to film festivals, food fairs, films, live orchestral evenings, Authors Night? Will all those events disappear? There seems to be no empty space remaining for them.
Why, why, why has the lovely, peaceful, green Herrick park been abandoned to become a sports center? And why overdo it and jam all the sports areas on top of one another? The tennis courts and one baseball diamond were already there; wasn’t that enough? Why take over the whole park? And why construct these additional courts and fields on a main street in the heart of the village? And where is the extra parking for all this?
It’s unsightly. It’s ugly. It’s wasteful. It’s overdone. It’s unusable in the winter months. It’s poorly planned. It’s poorly laid out. I love to play sports, yet how disappointing to see sports wipe out the arts, to see the loss of culture, the loss of open space, the loss of greenery, the loss of quiet areas, the loss of views, the loss of a place for contemplation.
JANE ADELMAN
Outstanding
Sag Harbor
February 11, 2024
Dear David,
I am writing to commend the excellent reporting by Christopher Gangemi in The Star.
His recent article on how water travels through East Hampton Village was outstanding, and revealing. And so is his reporting on community life and real estate development and government.
He does not comment on any of these issues. (Except occasionally on birds — but those are columns.)
Yet taken together all these pieces offer an in-depth and interconnected picture of life on the East End today.
Perhaps one day this will become a book?
I hope it will have a happy ending.
Yours sincerely,
CAROL WILLIAMS
Decline of Newspapers
Oakland, Calif.
February 6, 2024
Mr. Rattray,
A new documentary film, “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism at the Crossroads,” deeply examines the decline of newspapers — and with it the civic decline of the nation. The film, by Rick Goldsmith, an Academy Award-nominated producer, focuses largely on publications owned by the shadowy hedge fund Alden Global Capital. Alden’s president, Heath Freeman, has a mansion on East Lake Drive in Montauk and is linked to other properties in that hamlet. Mr. Freeman has recently acquired major stakes in various East End restaurants and resorts, like the Point down on Three Mile Harbor (where my East Hampton High School class held its senior prom in 1979) through the company East Hampton Hospitality, according to both The Star and The New York Times.
Alden owns and has gutted roughly 200 papers across the country, selling off real estate, laying off journalists, freezing salaries for years during inflationary times, offering little or no retirement benefits, and forcing employees to pay the bulk of health-care costs. This has made Mr. Freeman a reviled figure in journalism, so much so that in 2017 his own Denver Post editorialized against his ownership. He is a coward, afraid to speak to, or even acknowledge, the people who work for him. He is, in the plain talk of newsrooms, a dirtbag, and editors have been heard to refer to his budget-cutters as “Alden’s Jackboots.”
As “Stripped for Parts” shows, Mr. Freeman is a so-called vulture capitalist. Apparently unable to build much of anything himself, he acquires distressed properties and picks the bones, selling what he can while imposing austerity. Most, if not all, the newspapers he’s acquired were in financial trouble because of advertising revenue lost to the internet. But Mr. Freeman has created a national tragedy, making those papers worse, not better, by demanding profit margins that cannot be achieved without the severest of measures.
I worked for one of Mr. Freeman’s papers for more than 12 years and was a union leader, failing to win even modest cost-of-living increases. The man has myriad ways of saying no. Jobs were lost through layoffs and attrition. Expenses were microscoped. Stories went uncovered, beats were killed off. Mr. Freeman — in the only major interview with him that can be found — laughably told The Washington Post he hopes to be known for saving newspapers. He has a very funny way of doing that. He once bought the Payless Shoes retail chain. If his newspaper business model were applied to Payless, he’d be selling loafers and oxfords without soles and heels. If he ran his restaurants like his newsrooms, the health department would close them down. His resorts would have bedbugs.
The real damage is done city by city, town by town, from San Diego to Boston, from Orlando to Chicago, to people who depend on journalists to watchdog those in power. Who fights the freedom-of-information battles, or sits in school-board meetings until midnight to report on a budget vote? Who challenges the official narrative when police employ deadly force against a person of color? Mr. Freeman appears to never entertain such thoughts, or if he does he dismisses them quickly.
If he would settle for smaller profit margins and invest and grow his papers as they transform to digital-only operations, he would be a hero. The money he puts into Hamptons resorts would go a long way toward bolstering the civic responsibility he bears as a newspaper publisher. But that’s not him. Recently, hundreds of his journalists struck to demand better conditions. Mr. Freeman hasn’t blinked. Given the damage he causes, people ought to not frequent his East End establishments, including the Point, Enchante in Southampton, Shagwong in Montauk, and others.
Mr. Goldsmith’s film is gaining traction just when it seems as if Mr. Freeman’s reputation couldn’t get worse. But there is this. Mr. Freeman recently sold the venerable Baltimore Sun to David Smith, chair of MAGA-promoting Sinclair Broadcasting. And for that, I suppose, Mr. Freeman could be lauded. It was certainly an incredible feat for him to find a buyer who is an even bigger jackass than himself.
Sincerely,
THOMAS PEELE
Amityville
Montauk
February 10, 2024
Dear Dave,
Help me out here, Dave, this has been bothering me for a while. I know you are knowledgeable on the local political scene, so here’s the problem. A story in Newsday on Feb. 2, appropriately Groundhog Day, on the Congressional races on Long Island had the following information.
Nick LaLota of Amityville will be facing the winner of a Democratic primary for the First District. In the Second District, Andrew Garbarino, the incumbent Republican, will face Rob Lubin of Amityville, a Democrat.
You see where I’m going here?
Does LaLota still live in Amityville, and the Second District has two congressmen and the First none? I would appreciate your input.
Yours,
ED ORR
—
In reply to an email, a staff member in Rep. LaLota’s office confirmed that the congressman still lives in Amityville, outside the First District, and offered this explanation: “ “The Congressman had his Amityville home listed for sale and took it off after New York State Democrats sued to redraw his district’s lines.” Ed.
Secure Border or Not?
East Hampton
February 7, 2024
Dear David,
I am writing to voters represented in the House of Representatives by Nick LaLota, who is seeking re-election.
Mr. LaLota voted to impeach the Homeland Security Secretary ostensibly because of concerns about a porous southern border. Yet Mr. LaLota opposes the Senate bill sponsored by both Democrats and Republicans and supported by the U.S. Border Patrol that would help secure the southern border. Does Mr. LaLota want a secure border or not? The choice is clear. Mr. LaLota’s position is not.
SALVATORE TOCCI
We Can Afford It
Springs
February 9, 2024
Dear David,
I have been following the discussion about the new senior center proposed for Abraham’s Path.
The existing senior center is over 100 years old and in very poor condition. It needs to be replaced. If a new center is expected to last 100 years and serve the needs of the increasing elderly community of East Hampton, it should be architecturally attractive, which the proposed building seems to be. It should also be a building that East Hampton is proud of. The town’s credit rating is Aaa, so financially we can afford the $34-million price tag.
Some have suggested that we build half of the new center now and in 20 years build the rest. This makes no sense since prices in 20 years will be double or more today’s prices.
For such a long-term project, the Town should not take short-term measures. We need a new senior center and should make the necessary sacrifices to ensure that we have a center that is attractive, functional and something to be proud of. Half-measures will only result in a center that does not meet needs and will not be used by citizens who need its services most. Let’s stop the polemic and go ahead with this project as it is and not waste another 10 years completing something that is vitally needed.
Very truly yours,
ROBERT PINE
A Costly Folly
Sag Harbor
February 13, 2024
To the Editor:
The rendering of the proposed East Hampton senior center is a grand design for an airport hangar and an architect’s dream of a soaring structure without regard to cost or usage — interesting to look at, hard to feel comfortable in. It’s not cozy in the least, imposing rather than welcoming, disregards ecological concerns regarding heating and cooling, and comes with carrying costs — more than $2 million a year — that are absurd. My first thought is who is the architect’s friend on the town board who is pushing this monstrosity?
People, not just seniors, enjoy meeting their friends in smaller, warm spaces that encourage fellowship. Even with the solar panels on the parking area, why create a structure with so much wasted space that needs to be heated and cooled? The senior center as proposed is akin to the similarly wasted space of the soaring ceiling in the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, where people use treadmills under ceilings that are better suited to Gothic cathedrals or indoor ice rinks. Meanwhile, too-small rooms for exercise classes appear to have been stuck in the building as an afterthought.
As designed, the proposed senior center is not a structure to make people welcome; it’s an imposing edifice for the architect’s look book. I urge the town board to start over again with a structure designed first and foremost to serve the needs of the populace rather than move forward with such a costly folly.
LORRAINE DUSKY
The Silver Tsunami
Springs
February 9, 2024
To the Editor,
I appreciate the many informative letters and articles over the past month about the proposed senior center. There are so many flaws with the current plan, it’s hard to keep track.
Not only does the town want to avoid their own zoning codes but they also now want to rush through a project that they themselves have dropped the ball with many times over the last decade. At this point, they’ve gone through three different advisory committees during that time and still can only come up with a bloated, overly expensive plan that doesn’t even meet some basic needs that the current embarrassingly rundown facility does.
Despite nearly tripling the above-ground space on a newly purchased seven-acre lot (that should be subdivided and partially used for affordable housing), it will not offer a lounge or library area for residents as exists at the current two-acre site. Perhaps the grandiose 1,600-square-foot lobby/cafe with 25-foot ceilings and skylights will substitute? More disappointingly, despite talking about the growing needs of our senior community, the administration wants to do away with offering adult day care in this new facility. If there is going to be a “silver tsunami,” as they claim, over the next few decades, then that service should still be provided, not canceled.
The reason for this apparently is that staffing would be too expensive. Given state mandates for licensing there may be some truth to that, but it would be easy to find the extra few $100,000 needed every year for extra staff if the town wasn’t going to waste $10 million upfront on this vanity design that has gone from $10 million to $32 million in just the last few years. Although it is never discussed, this will be done with borrowed money, so there will also be another $10 million in interest costs to fund it — could some of that $20 million be better allocated for more staffing in the future?
There is also an extreme level of hypocrisy from a town that talks so much about sustainability goals and then pretends this new building is green. The architects falsely claim that a single-story building is cheaper and more efficient yet fail to acknowledge that given the 15 to 25-foot ceilings in a significant percentage of their design, they are already building a two-story building, just without the benefits.
Their design will result in both the geothermal and solar systems to be 30-percent larger and more expensive per square foot than needed. It’s also hard to understand how these architects expect to heat only the lower six feet of these vaulted rooms as stated at a recent board meeting. Moreover, they seem to have only a rudimentary understanding of solar — they didn’t incorporate it into the roof, which would be much cheaper, and have mistakenly told the town it may cost three times what it should for the solar parking canopies.
Most important, the town board made a mistake by offering the current architects a basic design fee plus being paid a percentage of the overall cost of the project — an incentive to go beyond what is practical. The stainless-steel shingles may be the most obvious example but the idea that there needs to be 80-percent clearing of the parcel, four separate parking lots, a 3,700-square-foot dining area, a 1,700-square-foot fitness room . . . all of these aspects could be smaller and at an estimated cost of building at $1,000 a square foot, they should be. Heck, let’s also have a well-lit basement for mechanics and storage that might save another couple million.
As more and more problems become obvious, it is hard to understand why the town board is pushing so hard and so fast for this inappropriate design. It seems political patronage is likely playing a role here and that may explain why one of the architects chosen for this project is from as far away as Chicago? Were there really none qualified who had offices on the South Fork?
Are we needlessly overbuilding just to fatten the fees of the supposed experts once again? This seems to happen quite often. Will the town also waste $650,000 in New York State water-quality grants on the recently proposed Benson preserve project and perhaps that much more in town money, eventually, when there are clearly better uses that could enhance water quality in Montauk, not just improve the view for a few politically connected landowners? The big difference is that usually the town is wasting in my opinion hundreds of thousands — maybe it will be a million with the Benson preserve — but with the senior center it’s looking like $20 million for an inefficient design that looks more like a convention center.
The new supervisor has said she plans on listening to residents and delegating some of her duties — a great way to show that would be to nominate its newest member, Ian Calder-Piedmonte, to oversee this project going forward. He has extensive planning department experience and deserves a year to pick new qualified local South Fork architects with green building experience. Give them a realistic, set budget (is $22 million really not enough?) to finally build and staff something our senior residents deserve that won’t needlessly break the bank. While town board members come and go, the debt for this project may last generations.
BRAD BROOKS
Ducking Oversight
East Hampton
February 11, 2024
Dear Reader:
About this letter — while it’s easy for this writer to choose a general topical direction, how do I choose a specific issue?
Direction, of course, would be the East Hampton Town Board’s recently published, unheard-of plan to exempt itself from required oversight by all of East Hampton Town’s own regulatory boards — planning board, zoning board, Natural Resources Department, architectural review board — regarding a specific town board-hyped project. Such a pinpoint exemption of an unnecessarily huge and expensive town project from the myriad entrenched rules that restrict us taxpayers — that could certainly be an issue.
The Monroe precedent they want to use to excuse their ducking of required oversight — why aren’t they hiding behind Monroe to exempt themselves from regulation of the large current Cantwell project?
Another topic could be the town board’s official submission to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation / Long Island Division of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of two separate environmental assessment forms, to the State and Federal land-use authorities, one dated Nov. 17, 2023, the other dated Jan. 4, 2024, both signed by the same town board official, and each with obvious errors.
And then there’s the town board’s obscene plan to unnecessarily chop down 5.672 acres of trees in Amagansett — acreage which serves as habitat for a locally robust population of an insect-eating mammal — one which is designated by the Feds as “endangered,” thus under strict prohibitions, which, if violated, will subject East Hampton Town to huge fines.
Plus the town board’s approval of their project’s new architect’s price tag — $32 million — to be charged to East Hampton taxpayers. Buckle up.
(On second thought, this letter pretty much wrote itself.)
Sincerely,
PATRICIA HOPE
Impress Us
Amagansett
February 11, 2024
To the Editor:
Nobody likes the town board! I’ve been thinking that the last few years and, there, I’ve blurted it out.
Reading The Star’s letter column, you never find a communication praising or thanking a board member anymore. Back in the day, in the absence of any sincere communications, the robotic faithful of the Democratic Committee would produce floods of such missives on command, but we are not even seeing those any more.
Last week I suggested that Kathee Burke Gonzalez exercise some independence and impress us. I am still hopeful; but if she won’t, there is still another way. The two new board members, rather than marching in lockstep, could show some freedom and independence and lay a basis for the local Democratic Party we deserve.
Of course, recent history indicates that when elected town officials show too much daylight between themselves and Voldemort, they don’t get nominated to run for re-election. But, voters of East Hampton, maybe we can all be sadder and wiser the next time, not believe the propaganda (because the robotic faithful will start churning out letters, then if no time else), and re-elect independent Democrats anyway.
Anyone who believes that the Republicans can never win another election in this town, even if the Democrats simply vanish as a coherent entity with values, a platform, and people skills, is not realistic. Save the party!
For Democrats and democracy in East Hampton,
JONATHAN WALLACE
A Big Mouth
Amagansett
February 12, 2024
Dear Editor,
Reggie Cornelia’s letter in last week’s edition of The Star was typical of the Republicans’ defense of Donald Trump. The problem is that Donald Trump himself has a big mouth and tells us what he is going to do. That, of course, will only happen if we are crazy enough to elect him again.
I saw Donald Trump tell the protesters on Jan. 6, 2021 to go to the Capitol and he hoped Mike Pence did “the right thing” by not certifying the election of Joe Biden. The insurrection was meant, I believe, to keep Trump in power. Those protesters then marched to the Capitol and I watched as they beat police, broke into the Capitol, yelled to “hang Mike Pence,” and looked for Nancy Pelosi. God knows what would have happened if they had found them.
Reggie then told us that in 2020 nothing was done to the protesters in Washington when they were violent. Fact check, Mr. Cornelia. It has been reported many times that over 14,000 people were arrested during those nationwide protests.
In 2020, Donald Trump hid in a bunker, it was reported. In 2021 he knew those protesters were not going to hurt him. They came because Bunker Donald told them to.
In 2016, when Trump was running for president, in a speech at a rally, he told the crowd that he “loved the uneducated people in America because they loved him.”
Sincerely yours,
ELAINE JONES
Flat Tires, Dead Birds
Westhampton
February 11, 2024
Dear David,
Anyone who still supports Trump after his calling for Russia to attack any NATO member who does not pay Trump for his protection racket is most definitely suffering from D.T.S. — Deranged Trump Syndrome. I am not surprised, since the G.O.P. is morphing into the Gang of Putin with a fascist view of how to rule.
While history has amply demonstrated how fascists behave, what I find amusing is Manny Villar expressing anger over the disappearance of several lawn signs supporting his candidates. Compare that with the MAGAT response to a five-inch-square “Resist Trump” bumper sticker I’ve displayed on my car.
Over the past seven years I have experienced seven flat tires in my driveway; two cracked windshields a year apart started with a ball-peen hammer striking just below the passenger-side windshield wiper; six dents in the driver’s-side door in the shape of a flathead screwdriver, and two torn windshield wipers, one in the front and one in the back.
Our pool backwash was turned on and a part of our pool filter removed. Two dead birds were tossed over our now-locked fence; the remains of a fishtail and of a rabbit’s hind quarter were left on our front lawn. It all began with the murder of two squirrels a month apart, cut open and splayed out on our front lawn. Oh, and a baby Jesus was left at the top of our driveway; that’s because I’m pro-choice.
I have no doubt the MAGAT RINOs would defend with their lives my right to free speech. Yeah — right! If Trump is allowed to run in defiance of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, he will be handed the dictatorship by his sycophantic enablers starting with the current Speaker of the House refusing to certify the 2024 results. They’ve already promised to weaponize the Justice Department to go after their perceived “enemies.” People like me, my wife’s ex, her son, my brother, Neil Hausig, Tom Mackey, Salvatore Tocci, Richard Siegelman, et al., will be made to disappear.
Think not? Wake up, America! That goes for you too, Manny.
Truly,
LANCE COREY
All Lives Are Precious
Montauk
February 11, 2024
To the Editor,
In two days in September 1941, over 30,000 innocent civilians, mostly women, children, and elderly, were shot in a ravine outside Kyiv, Ukraine. The killers then built a death camp at the ravine. Three months after the murders, The U.S.A. entered World War II to defeat the killers.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists from Gaza butchered over 1,200 Israelis, including soldiers but mostly innocent civilians that included, men, women (many of whom were publicly raped), and children (many of whom were babies). Over 200 hostages were also taken back to Gaza. In response, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu launched a massive ground invasion and bombing campaign to eradicate Hamas. To date, the invasion and indiscriminate bombing have killed over 26,000 people including some Hamas terrorists, but mostly innocent women and children. To date, the American government has done almost nothing to end the slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza who do not have access to tunnels. In fact, the American government has continued to support and help to fund Netanyahu’s policies.
It seems to me that a ceasefire is a rational policy that will gain the release of the hostages and end the slaughter of civilians. All lives of innocent people are precious.
Sincerely,
BRIAN POPE
Back and Forth
North Haven
February 12, 2024
To the Editor,
Jim Vrettos specializes in long, meandering letters to the editor that say little of importance. His latest churlish attack (East Hampton Star, Feb. 2) is no exception. First, he once again resorts to claiming that our group, East End Jews for Israel, has harassed and bullied the cease-fireniks at their demonstration venue near the wharf in Sag Harbor. Mr. Vrettos wasn’t there; he relies on a Star article that didn’t say that. Were words expressing our differences exchanged? Of course, but why is that bullying? No one was threatened. Were someone’s delicate ears twitched? I would call what was said back-and-forth free speech — the hallmark of democracy.
Then Vrettos, who is happy to rely on The Star’s reporting when it suits him, turns on The Star when he accuses it of libel because it printed our letter. He is one slippery fellow. Vrettos knows as little about libel law as he does about the catastrophic problems in the Middle East. But his threat, while not a serious one to us, ought to be understood by The Star as the threat of an angry correspondent who wants to control what’s written.
Finally, maybe this time Vrettos will address some of the issues we have raised. One: How should Israel have reacted to the acts of terrorism and barbarism committed by Hamas? Two: The primary goal of Hamas is the annihilation of the State of Israel and the expulsion of Jews from the place they call Palestine. What’s your position on this? Three: On at least five different occasions, Israel has agreed to a partition that would create a separate Palestinian state, but on each occasion the offer has been rejected. Your views on this? Four: Does Israel have the right to annihilate/extinguish Hamas? What limitations would you place on Israel’s military action? If you do think that restrictions or limitations should be placed on Israel, can you point us to any place or time in world history where a country attacked was restricted in carrying out military operations against the country that was the aggressor? Was the United States restricted in World War II from retaliating against Japan, who had attacked Pearl Harbor? Were England and France restricted in how they attacked Germany, bringing World War II to an end? See if you can answer these serious questions. Get it on.
DAVID SAXE
MITCHEL AGOOS
East End Jews for Israel
Trump Is Chaos
East Hampton
February 12, 2024
To the Editor,
Satan in “Paradise Lost” says of himself, “Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell.”
Daily we see that the convicted sexual predator Trump is himself chaos and brings chaos wherever he goes.
There is nothing he will not do to stay out of jail.
Demagogues do not stop; they are stopped.
TOM MACKEY
Send in the Clowns
East Hampton
February 12, 2024
To the Editor,
When Republican senators entered the chamber to vote on the immigration bill, the music announcing their presence was “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim. So, taking their cues from the song, their behavior was senseless tomfoolery. They voted against Senator Lankford, vilifying his work with the opposite party. They said that a bill wasn’t necessary and that the voters would decide what to do about the border in a year or maybe two. None of the senators had read the 357-page bill while a couple read the summary.
According to Lankford, the only Republican senator versed in the border/immigration issue, this bill was the toughest and most comprehensive bill in 40 years. And the only one. But Trump said solving the border issue would hurt his election chances and threw Lankford, the bill, and the country under the bus.
So, now Lankford is white trash. Not worthy of the great man’s disdain. Banished to Siberia to wallow in the frost as penance for telling the truth about his comrades in arms. The worthless, useless scum of the Republican Party at its very best ass-kissing buffoonery.
So there is no longer a border issue. Extraordinary. We have shifted from the “eye of the beholder” rationale to “mind over matter.” Which makes no sense, because if there is no border issue how can they use it in the election? It no longer matters what you see or touch or hear. All of these senses have been relegated to the cesspool of mind games. I believe, therefore, it’s true. Truth isn’t objective or selective, it’s imaginary. I don’t see one thing or another. I don’t see anything at all.
So, something is really screwed up here. What are our politicians doing? Who do they work for? Do they have job descriptions? Are they paid for what they produce or are they on the dole?
Have we lost all sense of living in the real world of facts and accomplishments? Is being a jerk a lucrative profession?
NEIL HAUSIG
Bay View Avenue
Amagansett
February 11, 2024
To the Editor:
Many articles about zoning as of late. The town had originally had a public hearing for code 255-11-72 “Height,” scheduled for Feb. 15. It has since been removed. Code is continually a written suggestion and, as we’ve learned, local law need not apply. I wonder how the Building Department functions when its head Joe Palermo doesn’t know about structures he issued the permits for?
The questions I have for the Town Engineering Department are not yet answered and most likely won’t ever be. Though thank you, Nora Jacobs, for that email before Christmas. I did respond back within 25 minutes. I hope you’ve been enjoying that promotion, perhaps for not answering my Freedom of Information Law requests. But why no answers from this specific department, you ask? Currently, bypassing town board resolutions in January, both court attorneys who are employed by the owners who block Bay View Avenue are now assigned to that department! These continued connections make each action more suspicious. Gross malfeasance breeds ignorance.
Still here,
JOE KARPINSKI
Pajamas and Robe
Montauk
February 11, 2024
Dear David,
When my mom had to go into assisted living, I would visit often. I found it amazing all patients present would argue that they had all their facilities, especially their memories. It’s true what they said, but they had excellent long-term memory. Short term did not exist, and the anger was a big part of their actions. Take note of his language along with his anger.
Now we have the president of the United States in the exact position, forgetful, angered, and completely argumentative. It’s pathetic his family is allowing this man to be seen in such a manner.
The liberals, including the White House, are unloading on both Robert Hur and their buddy Merrick Garland. They feel Garland should have overseen Hur’s report and should have never allowed it to become public. You understand when not in your favor, you criticize the investigator.
After all, Joe Biden can ride a bike, Rachel Maddow’s reasoning why Biden’s not too forgetful. Biden willfully kept and shared classified information but will not be charged because of his cognitive decline. The way the documents were stored, in broken cartons and busted drawers thrown around in his garage, we have to pray no one copied them.
Next I expect we will see Joe Biden walking around in his pajamas and robe.
Mr. Hur in his investigation saw what exactly is happening, but this report is not to the liking of the liberals. Please, if this was anyone from their family, would they get help, or choose to ignore the situation because they don’t want to admit help is needed. I got my mom all the help she needed
In God and country,
BEA DERRICO