3/10/2023 0 Comments Battle of great bridge 2021![]() You’re supporting a man who kept state secrets in his home. You are supporting a man who sat doing nothing and enjoying January 6th. ![]() It means that you believe that women shouldn’t control their own bodies and should determine their own future. That these people, these thugs and animals that have desecrated our Capitol, are your people. It means you care more that the young, the angry, and the people with mental illness have a right to a gun than my right to move safely through the world. Who would want their good name associated with the Republican Party? Here’s what it means to me when you vote for the GOP. We are in a dangerous place Wake up America. What is evident today is the demonstratively cowardly inaction of senior Republicans who are doing nothing to stop this destructive path. The violent act of insurrection involving the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys and others to prevent the normal transfer of power on Januset the stage to ignite this fascist movement. ![]() And if they lose, they may claim the election was rigged. If elected, their likely intent is to control access to the ballot box by preventing large numbers of minority voters from casting their ballots and ultimately deciding who will be the winner. “Sixty percent of Americans will have an election denier on the ballot this fall,” according to. The best opinion content of the week and the opportunity to participate in a weekly question on an issue affecting our region. There is an apparent attempt to control access to voting machines and ballot boxes, to impose stricter individual voting rights, all a plot to destroy our liberal democracy and install a fascist ideology. ![]() The far-right’s path is to destroy our free and fair elections by enacting voter-suppression laws and policies, including weakening our historic civil rights laws. Does this ring a bell about what is happening in America today? Think “America First” trust only me and Article II says I can do whatever I want, hello America. Fascism is a philosophy that “…elevates the nation, often running over the individual, and advocates centralized autocratic government…” according to Merriam-Webster. 4): The cartoon about fascism on the Opinion page shows America sleeping while this grave threat builds. Re “Sleeping Through the Storm” (Nick Anderson cartoon, Oct. In my opinion, these actions disqualify him from holding public office. He proved to me by those two actions alone that he was more interested in pleasing former President Donald Trump than in preserving our democratic republic. Then, to make matters worse, he voted against creating a bipartisan commission to investigate this uprising. And he did so even after the Capitol was attacked. He lost my support when, without good evidence, he decided to vote out voters from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the 2020 election. Rob Wittman since he first went to Congress in 2007. Re “Herb Jones” (Your Views, 3.10.): The author has a right to money. Jean Carideo, President of the Great Bridge Battlefield and Waterways History Foundation, Chesapeake The people of Chesapeake and the nation owe her a debt of gratitude now and in the future. Cross was one of the many visionary founding men and women who, with dignity, kindness, courtesy and responsibility, saved the battlefield, founded the Great Bridge Battlefield and Waterways History Foundation and championed what is now the Great Bridge Battlefield and Waterways History Museum. Cross knew that if we don’t confront or learn from the tough, we could learn lessons about integrity, honor, camaraderie, empathy, and compromise from studying combat and the people involved-lessons about citizenship, but also lessons about warnings Realities of the past we are doomed to repeat.Įleanor P. This battlefield was a physical reminder of the proud place shared by the citizens of Chesapeake, and its destruction was an irreplaceable loss to American Revolutionary War history. Protecting the site of the Battle of Great Bridge on Decemwas an effort dear to her heart, and she believed it was for this new city. She loved history and understood the national significance of the historical events that took place here. Cross was a woman of vision and integrity who worked alongside her husband, the late Honorable Judge Charles B.
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