Tag: Politics

“Oh, say can you see” opens the Star Spangled banner”. The history of our current National Anthem started in 1814. Francis Scott Key, an attorney, slave owner and amateur poet was witness to the shelling of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland from a nearby ship.

A week ago in his column entitled "Erasing History," Justin Collins quite rightly chided the local Republicans for not having a telephone number available for those who have questions. Let me say that we, as Hemet San Jacinto Republicans, agree with him and, at our last board meeting, took action on this.

The phrase "defunding the police" has to be perhaps one of the worse marketing ever done in history. However, the vagueness of this term gives politicians a lot of wiggle room to use the language without defining what they will actually do.

It’s sad to see the paper has lost representation of the Republican Party in the Hemet/San Jacinto area. The disappearance of Robin Lowe has left a hole in the conversation between the local Democrats and Republicans.

So many of my posts lately have been about what is wrong, about the pandemic, about George Floyd. I interrupt this trend and post something more positive this week. Robert Kennedy, during his 1968 Presidential campaign