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Looking Forward to a Great 2020
By: Carol Chapman
As we move forward in 2020, I would like to
remind you that the Foundation Assisting
Seniors continues to help seniors and veterans to
remain in their homes. Our services are free but
we do depend on donations to continue to operate.
This year, we are holding the The Spirit of Spring, our 2 nd Annual
Charity Gala, in association with the National Silver Haired Congress,
honoring the Nevada Senior Citizen of the Year, on Saturday, March
28, 2020, at 6:00 pm, at the M Resort. We are excited to have Mark
OToole as our emcee and performer for the evening. In addition to our
entertainment, we will be having both Silent and Live Auctions.
If you know of a
senior citizen in your
community who might
be a candidate, call the
Foundation at 725-
244-4200 to obtain the
requirements and an
application. To date,
all six previous Nevada
Senior Citizens of the Year
have been from Clark
County. We are anxious
to receive nominations
from all over the state.
January 2020
Mark OToole
Equal Opportunity Chicanery
By: Judy Polumbaum / Our View
Jimmy Carter pretty much stuck to his promise
to tell the American people the truth. I’m not
the first to note that he was the last US president
to make that mistake. The people turned him out after one term.
Lying, dissembling, obfuscation and hypocrisy have become the way
of the world of politics.
I cannot figure out how Donald Trump convinced so many that he
stands for the little guy. Is it because he was little when he made it big
as a preteen, on his real estate mogul father’s payroll to the tune of a
quarter million a year?
Bernie Sanders
entered the
Vermont political
scene as a Liberty
Union Party
activist. He won
US House and
Senate seats as
an Independent.
He calls himself
a democratic
socialist. He’s aiming for president on the Democratic Party ticket.
The newest millionaire presidential candidate, Michael Bloomberg,
was a Democrat, then a Republican, then an Independent, and now is
a Democrat again.
Nobody seems to mind the political mood swings when it’s the guys.
Yet Elizabeth Warren is criticized for switching from Republican to
Democrat a quarter century ago. With decent reason: her own research,
showing that individuals who declare bankruptcy are not deadbeats, as
she’d expected, but rather people who’ve hit a hard patch.
Poor Warren - still taking flak for claiming that drop of Native
American blood. Meanwhile, scarcely a word about Joe Biden’s little
issue with plagiarism, which caused him to drop his first run for
president. Not to mention misrepresentations about his past political
positions, which quickly disappear in denial.
Trump, who changed his party affiliation half a dozen times up to
his Republican coronation, is the undisputed Teflon champ. (Teflon, by
the way, is poisoning us all, as the new movie “Dark Waters” reminds
us.)
Fact-checkers counted more than 13,400 false or misleading
statements by Trump as he approached his 1,000th day in office. Plus
he has all the Republicans in Congress marching in lockstep, parroting
his assertions that he’s never done anything wrong.
Alas, this sweet land of liberty is also the land of duplicity and double
standards. Not all evils are equal, however; there are degrees of iniquity.
The American people need to decide how much they can stand.
Meanwhile, we’re in for another rocky year. Happy 2020 to all.
Judy is a professor emerita of journalism and a transplant to
Las Vegas from New England via China, the West Coast and the
Midwest.