Is it necessary for national political “debates” be taken up in a local paper?
I can understand local issues and really digging in with passion for people who feel their opponents should be burnt at the stake. Local issues play into how we live here in Laguna. But national issues? I can read the LA Times or Wall Street Journal for that.
I am responding to a letter by Leonard Olds, who was very upset after reading Billy Fried’s column, where Mr. Fried went off on an anti-Trump tangent.
I enjoy reading Billy’s column. I also email him wondering why he didn’t run for City Council. He obviously loves Laguna. At the same, I consider myself a conservative/liberal and don’t feel the hatred generated by both parties (and truthfully, mostly from the left) needs to be reinstated by picking up a copy of the LB paper.
With a new Democratic house, politics for the next two years is going to get really ugly. Why should a small local paper in a small seacoast city add to the hatred? Political signs being torn or removed at the last City Council election showed how people are now forgetting this is a country of different opinions and we live together.
Thank you for allowing me to share my opinion.
Michael Saitta, Laguna Beach
