Letters to the editor June 10

Krushers will keep striving for fundraising goal

Every year businesses and organizations devote countless hours and support to Special Olympics. All Montana law enforcement departments cover miles in the Torch Run, serve tables in Tip A Cop, and hang medals on the athlete’s necks at the award ceremonies.

Locally, Town Pump, Murdoch’s, TireRama, and Pizza Hut donated fantastic prizes and sold a phenomenal amount of raffle tickets. Super 1 and Mod Pizza opened their doors many times for athletes to sell at their businesses. Mod Pizza also hosted a Special Olympics Pizza Day. United Way hosted a “Celebration” dinner and dance for the athletes who were unable to attend the Summer State Games.

The people of Montana also responded. They knew that they probably wouldn’t win a prize, but that was OK. They wanted to support Special Olympics, and they bought 1,525 raffle tickets from the Krushers!

The Kalispell Krushers give you a very special thanks for your support. For many athletes it is hard to sell tickets, but your smiles and words of encouragement created a bond. The Krushers know how much Kalispell cares. The Krushers tried hard, but they fell short of their goal. The Krushers are going to keep on striving and reach their goal for the November State Games. There will be future fundraising activities. With Kalispell’s help, the Krushers will have the opportunity to compete.

—Susan Stark, Kalispell

Whitefish water conservation

Um, excuse me Whitefish City Council, but...

If water is going to overflow our oceans, lakes, rivers and cities from glacier melt, doesn’t it make sense to use more and even give away for free?

Green grass and healthy trees everywhere are all we have left to save our planet from the carbon gases we generate. You need to encourage yard watering.

Water dilutes cow and human waste: use more, dilute more, easier to separate and process and controls water release.

Consider that collecting water fees for a product that devours carbon and generates species saving oxygen is an important hidden carbon tax and change your utility bill to read “Sewer Dilution and Carbon Utilization and Reduction Maximization”. Actually, that is redundant. Just “Carbon Reduction Utilities” will suffice.

—Dan Boutwell, Columbia Falls

Paranoia of progressive puppets

Two billion cash dollars physically sent back to Iran under Obama? John Kerry meets four times with Iranian leaders since Trump’s election? Brennan, former CIA sleaze, distributing dossiers to Congressional Democrats about Iran, two years after leaving his own office?

Obviously, this is the continuation of the cover-up once expectant of Hillary’s ascension into the White House. There was uranium and nuclear-arms sales paid for by Iran, as did Russia. The only problem was Donald Trump won, who immediately canceled the deal. That was a lot of money down the drain for arms-sellers, but too late.

Billions of dollars had been transferred to the Obama administration in his final months as a lame duck president. Conspiracy to stop a Constitutional election, with operatives bragging to “girlfriends” they would now do it without Clinton. Obama, Clinton, and Brennan found themselves powerless to sell military arms to Iran, but money was already in their banks, now irretrievable.

The present paranoia of progressive “puppets” cursing Trump while fainting in New York City banquets, is all orchestrated by a few individuals. Military arms dealers are involved, covered by banks or possibly the Clinton Foundation. This is the real cause of the “Saturday Night Fever” we are witnessing in the Democrat Party. They’re crazy.

Some characters are trying to hide this crime until the 2020 election. John Kerry is actually delivering promises to Iran until Democrats can get back into power, but Iran is blistering with rage. If the Iranians choose to go public before the election, the Democrat Party is finished. It will no longer exist. Their leaders stumbled because of greed. Now, they’re terrified with “...No time to talk!” Some rightly see themselves in stripes, dancing the rest of their life in a federal prison.

—Mike Donohue, Kalispell

The right thing to do

Someone once said, “Americans will always do the right thing – after they have tried everything else.” Well now we have tried everything else. A formal impeachment inquiry will be long and difficult, but it must begin now. There simply is no other way to send a clear message to other criminals and sociopaths, that our White House is not for sale and will not be their safe haven. We must do this even though we know impeachment will require 20 Republican votes, and that clearly will not happen. Only a single Republican in the senate, Justine Amash, appears to have actually read the Muller report, and he alone is the only Republican willing to do the right thing. To a person, every other Republican senator is a profile in hypocrisy and cowardice.

So the question for all is this; could we survive another term with this man at the helm? The obvious answer is NO, we can not. Never before in U.S. history have we witnessed such malignant narcissism, pathological lying, shocking ignorance, and openly criminal behavior in the White House. As a result, Americans and the entire world, now face a growing clear and present danger. In just two years the damage to our rule of law, to our institutions, to our standing and reputation in the world, to our self-esteem, and to our environment has been devastating.

But all is not lost. If young people and minorities show up at the polls in even greater numbers than they did in 2018, and if the older generation does it’s

part to ensure they do vote. If we do this, we can finally rid ourselves of this dark stain on American history, and remove all doubt as to what kind of country Americans want to leave to their grandchildren. It is the right thing to do.

—Jim Lockwood, Whitefish