I wanted to reach out and let everyone in the Upper Valley know that the 2016 CHaD Hero is nonpartisan! Even (especially) in a polarizing year, the Hero offers a chance to love everyone more and see firsthand that we are better together.
Dig out your cape (or not) and join the other heroes on Oct. 16, when we will again celebrate and support the children of New Hampshire and Vermont and the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth. All details are at chadhero.org.
Jeff HastingsRace director, CHaD Hero Hanover
Regarding Trump being a tax genius:
Is Trump a tax genius? You would have to ask his genius accountant!
Joe SilverHartland
What Are American Women Thinking?
What is the American woman doing? I do not understand her.
The American woman often has to work two jobs. She has to get her children to child care, take care of her husband or partner, and also do most of the housework. She works till she drops and yet she appears to be voting for Hillary Clinton. I do not understand it.
What does she need most? Money. She needs money for food and many other things. She needs to save money for her children’s college education. She really needs money.
Along comes Trump, who says I am going to get jobs for the American people, bring back corporations to America. Americans will have more money in their pockets. Working Americans will keep more of their paycheck as the welfare rolls will go down. Also, it will give Americans job security that some of them don’t have. It is a plus-plus for the American woman. She cannot lose and she wins, wins, wins. Her partner or husband is better off and her children are better off. The children of America have a future.
Voting for Hillary Clinton could be a bad mistake. I do not understand the American woman’s double standards. She wants her children to have ethics and be morally straight. She doesn’t want them to lie, or cheat on tests at school, and she does not want them to steal. So how can she vote for someone who I believe is the most corrupt political woman in American history?
If you do not believe me, watch Clinton Cash on YouTube; that should wake you up. Does the American woman want this woman for a role model for her daughters?
I am not voting for her, as I cannot. I am morally straight, so I have to go with Donald Trump as he is the better of the two candidates. If you are a parent or grandparent, watch what you do as those children whom we love so much are watching.
I do not understand the American woman at all — and that is an understatement.
Eleanor FarrWindsor
A Sept. 30 Forum letter, “Choice is a No-Brainer,” offers a comparison of the presidential candidates in which he claims that Hillary Clinton has “produced no meaningful accomplishment other than to amass a personal fortune.”
However, a summary of her record reads: legal counsel for the U.S. Congress; co-founder of Arkansas Advocates for Women and Families; first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation; first female partner at the Rose Law Firm; first lady of Arkansas; first lady of the United States; senator from New York; U.S. secretary of state.
As for Donald Trump, whom Forum writer Jeff Lehmann would look to, “to change the failed domestic and foreign policies of the last eight years, for which (Clinton) shares responsibility,” his record reads: real estate developer, entrepreneur, reality television personality.
I would certainly expect a former first couple to be well-off financially, regardless of their politics or personalities, as a result of their achievements and their access to opportunity. However, Hillary Clinton has done a lot of good in her life; I don’t have the sense that she and her husband are especially wealthy as that’s understood in the U.S. in the 21st century.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, has done little good that I’m aware of and is well-known largely for being wealthy.
Chris Weinmann Norwich
Minter Has Best Qualifications
While John Freitag raised points for Vermonters to consider when picking their next governor (“A Democrat for Phil Scott,” Oct. 3), know that Sue Minter is her own person and not beholden to any policies of the current administration.
To face the many challenges ahead, Minter will deploy the same intelligence, energy and skill she used to rebuild our state after its biggest crisis in a generation: Tropical Storm Irene. Minter was Vermont’s chief recovery officer and that heroic effort, led by Minter and her team, came in on budget and in record time.
Minter’s fiscal discipline, thoughtful analysis of every problem and passion to make Vermont work for all of us shines through in all she says and does, but don’t believe me. Listen to her and Phil Scott in the next debate. Ask yourself if this were a job interview and you were hiring, who do you want at the wheel?
Yes, Mr. Freitag, Phil Scott is a nice guy. I like him a lot, as a person of integrity. I like Sue Minter, too, for the same reasons. But as our next governor, I’m going with the one who guided us through our toughest time in years. She’s ready to revitalize and energize Vermont. She’s a proven commodity, not a campaign promise. That’s why I’m voting for Minter for Vermont’s next governor and ask you to support her, too.
Bob WilliamsonSouth Woodstock