As one who travels close to Sea Grape Drive in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea nearly day by day, I strongly oppose town decision to co-designate it as “President Donald J. Trump Drive.”
The realm is closely traveled by vacationers and residents, with eating places and inns catering to folks of all political persuasions. A politically charged road title may alienate guests and create an unwelcome ambiance for visitors who come right here to get pleasure from our lovely coastal neighborhood.
Our neighborhood advantages from sustaining non-political road names that replicate our coastal character and pure magnificence.
Sea Grape Drive completely captures the essence of our seaside city, with its reference to native sea grape crops that line our seashore and outline our distinctive panorama. This title speaks to residents and guests alike, no matter political opinions.
Road naming ought to unite our numerous neighborhood, relatively than introduce political divisions into our day by day lives. Residents driving to work or vacationers searching for instructions shouldn’t be confronted with partisan messaging.
richardforflorida.com
Lauderdale-By-The-Sea city commissioner Richard DeNapoli is a robust supporter of President Trump.
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea has all the time been a welcoming vacation spot for guests and residents of all backgrounds. Let’s maintain our road names reflective of our pure heritage, relatively than partisan politics. I urge the city fee to rethink this decision.
Arlene Marcus, Fort Lauderdale
(Editor’s Be aware: The Trump co-designation might be mentioned at a city fee assembly at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 10).
It’s not the identical Florida
Florida, the place to begin?
I moved right here 45 years in the past from Connecticut for the climate. I’ve grown up right here, from a 30-year-old mom of two to a senior citizen. The present local weather (politically, not the climate) is stifling. I choke once I hear “Free Florida.”
I’m free to contract childhood illnesses that had been erased in my youngsters’s youth. I’m free to determine what one other lady desires to do along with her fetus that’s not viable or can’t be supported. I’m free to vote for whomever I need — so long as it’s the governor’s buddy.
I’ve watched an unimaginable public college system shredded for political cronyism and Okay-12 public training gutted for constitution faculties (one other title for political enterprise companions). I’ve seen my pocketbook raided by our governor for self-aggrandizement when sending planes to maneuver immigrants from one other state. He used our cash to create a detention heart to look good in Trump’s eyes.
I taught elementary faculty for 30 years in Broward. I made the minimal, in comparison with associates in different states, however was paid in “sunshine,” as we had been instructed. I caught it out as a result of I do love the sunshine and what Florida was: a multicultural microcosm of the world.
I sit up for getting again to sanity.
Linda Esposito, Tamarac
A complete travesty
Gross sales tax breaks to purchase weapons and ammunition in Florida. Elimination of childhood vaccine mandates. No extra fluoride in our consuming water.
Properly, now we are able to sit up for extra deaths by weapons, extra youngsters and adults dying due to no clear mandates on vaccines, and our youngsters getting extra cavities.
Ask Gov. Ron DeSantis if his personal youngsters obtained the required vaccines (I feel I do know the reply).
Surgeon Common Joseph Ladapo and HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. are a hazard to our welfare. Each needs to be fired. Our governor is equally liable for this travesty.
Diane Weiss, Plantation
To ‘personal the libs’
Concerning ending childhood vaccine mandates in Florida, how a lot will my medical insurance premiums improve?
How a lot will it value me to get a COVID booster, as a 62-year-old? What is that this circus efficiency for the MAGA crowd going to value Floridians when it comes to cash and lives? Have any scientific research been accomplished to estimate all of this?
After all not. All that issues is proudly owning the libs.
Stuart Inexperienced, Oakland Park
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