Give a working mom a break
Re "Shriver apologizes for cell phone lapse" (Capitol & California, Oct. 15): A picture is worth a thousand words: Maria Shriver photographed using a cellular phone while driving.
But, I also saw a woman trying to be a good mother while fulfilling her soccer mom duties. I saw a career woman striving to maintain her identity as a journalist. I saw a dedicated politician's wife juggling appointments and obligations as the first lady of California.
The governor travels in a chauffeur-driven car with an assistant while his wife struggles without. He said that he would take "swift action."
What a wonderful thought: I hope he steps up to the plate and becomes more involved as a soccer dad or markets, shops, cooks and washes up for his children. Or better, gets his wife a chauffeur and assistant so she can fulfill her many obligations without violating the cell phone law.
– Falcon F. Lee, Sacramento
California, the lenient state
Re "Shriver apologizes for cell phone lapse" (Capitol & California, Oct. 15): You've got to be kidding me! My husband drives a truck over the road and was stopped for talking on his cell phone. He got a $141 ticket. He was not given the option of donating his "favorite used cell phone."
No wonder California has no money in its coffers.
– Theresa Cambron, Jenks, Okla.
A loss of perspective in S.F.
Re "S.F. sends gifts galore to Johnson" (Our Region, Oct. 15): What a waste of money and time. Our homeless population is facing no winter shelter in Sacramento and I'm sure the homeless situation in San Francisco is not much better.
Shame on all involved for missing the big picture.
What ever happened to a handwritten, personal note, Mayor Gavin Newsom?
– Roy Cornatzer, Roseville
More tax breaks, please
At one time taxpayers were allowed to claim interest paid on automobiles, recreational vehicles, credit card purchases, student loans, etc. If the federal government really wants to stimulate the economy, allowing taxpayers to claim interest paid on such loans or credit would go a long way in providing taxpayers across the country with much-needed relief.
Even as I write this, the credit card companies continue to change rates (upward) before the new laws go into effect next year.
So how about it, Washington? Give most of us a real break rather than to those who traded in a clunker or get a tax credit for buying a home.
– Ron Albiston, Willows
No sympathy for man on hunt
Re "Oroville hunter, 83, hurt by wounded bear's attack" (Page B2, Oct. 14): For most any person injured, I feel sympathy. But not in the case of the 83-year-old alleged hunter who was mauled by a wild bear in Sierra County.
It is a so-called sport played out regularly by lazy human predators. They attach a radio transmitter to one or more of the hounds in the pack and send the hounds out and wait for them to become stationary, at which point they know they have treed a wild animal and they then proceed at their leisure to arrive at the scene, where they shoot the animal in cold blood out of the tree.
It was just in this case, they didn't kill the bear. This sport is a cowardly and despicable act that should be banned by state statute.
– Don Knutson, Sacramento
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