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Requiring EV stations
will slow building
Re: “New rules would require charging outlets” (Page B1, Jan. 15).
San Jose wants to mandate that apartment developers install charging stations at every residential parking space. My reaction? Insanity.
Councilmember David Cohen has a “feeling that EVs are out of reach for renters or low-income people. I think we can overcome that.” How? By mandating charging stations that no one will use because renters and low-income people can’t afford to buy the cars? This kind of “road-to-nowhere” thinking imposes additional costs on homebuilders, to be passed on to consumers, with no observable beneficial outcome. Adding any additional costs to new development is a disincentive to additional construction of new living space while we bemoan housing shortages.
This idea is half-baked at best. The City Council should reject it.
Phillip Griego
San Jose
Geracie brought games
to life in columns
Re: “Calling end to career that has been a true blessing” (Page C1, Jan. 14).
In his column, Bud Geracie wrote about his retirement as executive sports editor for the Mercury News.
I have been reading and enjoying the Mercury News for over 40 years. I remember reading his sports column and really enjoying how he was able to articulate the actions on the field in a way that made it very interesting, and his commentary was often spot-on. I continued to read his columns until they no longer appeared. Thinking back, life events took over for me and I never dug into why his column was gone. In his retirement article, I learned he was executive sports editor for the last 17 years.
All I can say is, bless you, Bud, for the many articles you wrote. Best to you in your retirement.
Robert Neargarder
San Jose
State legislators should
vote out foreign money
Sunday is the anniversary of the Citizens United decision that legalized nearly unlimited corporate campaign spending. Its effects after 14 years? There was an explosion of money in politics, especially dark and gray money — whose sources need not be disclosed or have limited disclosure. Until a constitutional amendment corrects this travesty, what can we do to limit corporate influence on our politics?
Pass AB 83, the Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act. Authored by the South Bay’s very own assemblymembers Ash Kalra and Otto Lee, it prohibits contributions to California elections by “foreign-influenced” corporations, estimated to be 98% of the S&P 500’s U.S. corporations. Minnesota passed such legislation last year and it’s now pending in four other states. Our Legislature will vote on it soon. Urge all your state representatives to vote yes.
John Fioretta
San Jose
Media pumps up Trump
after mediocre Iowa win
In the aftermath of Donald Trump pulling out 51% of the votes in the Iowa caucuses, a strange anachronistic affair with a mediocre history of predicting political success in its own right, I read headlines left and right proclaiming a Trump landslide and a restrengthening of his position.
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Fifty-one percent strikes me as rather unimpressive, and I wonder why the media is so desperate to build up Trump. The horse race must be kept alive at all costs, despite the entire Republican Party being morally bankrupt and lacking any policy platform besides willful ignorance and revenge.
Note that when the horse race talks about Trump, it has nothing to say about what he offers, just if he can win. Shameful.
Mathew Clark
Campbell
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