Taxpayers won when Mike Causey stood up to Durham billionaire Greg Lindberg

Mike Causey stood up for NC taxpayers

Regarding “A shouting jury, then a verdict: Billionaire Greg Lindberg guilty of political bribery,” (March 6):

I’m personally taken aback by Greg Lindberg and Robin Hayes getting involved in a bribery scheme. The insurance commissioner, Mike Causey, showed integrity - that he could not be bought and was on the side of what was right.

There are people who work in numerous city, county, state and federal government positions who have integrity, cannot be intimidated, and will not be influenced by wealthy people’s money. You could have Warren Buffett’s fortune and these guys will “go to the mattresses“ for the taxpayers.

Randall Lemly, Charlotte

Sen. Schumer deserves censure

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York deserves censure for his intemperate threat to Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brent Kavanaugh regarding the Louisiana abortion clinic case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Maybe Schumer thinks since the president attacks judges in public statements, he can too. But Schumer is a Harvard Law graduate and knows better. Respect for the courts and orderly rule of law is a cornerstone to our freedom, no matter which side you are on.

Ed Hinson, Charlotte

On virus, Trump makes matters worse

Now President Trump has waded into the coronavirus tragedy and based on a “hunch” refuted the the World Health Organization’s estimate on the coronavirus death rate.

The public has long endured his lack of knowledge as president, but when he starts playing with the lives of millions of Americans it’s time to call his bluff and send him packing.

The president should leave governing this country to the elected officials who have some semblance of empathy. He should let the medical community do its work without meddling in an area he has zero knowledge about.

Larry Vogt, Mooresville

Climate change will be more deadly

It’s ironic that it takes a microscopic virus to shock the world into facing the threat of the coronavirus that may release a pandemic only we can possibly resolve. The absolute and promised danger to our entire planet promised by climate change is yet to be addressed with the same alacrity and fear. We’re leaving that problem to be solved by our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, by which time it will be far too late.

The here-and-now creates absolute panic; yet the inevitable result of waiting too long to address climate change doesn’t seem to frighten us nearly as much.

Robert P. Klein, Charlotte

Dems, focus on ACA in 2020 election

President Trump has said his administration will protect pre-existing conditions, yet neither the White House nor the GOP has ever put forward a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.

The Trump administration will spend the next several months preparing its oral arguments for an ACA-related case coming before the Supreme Court this fall. The court challenge could strip away the health insurance of 20 million people and overturn protections for pre-existing conditions. The court should begin hearing the case sometime around October, right before the November election.

The Democrats should use this case to bludgeon Trump and the GOP at every turn leading up to the November election.

Dot Meixler, Huntersville

Trump has a political record now. Note it.

In February 2016, Donald Trump declared that upon becoming president he would immediately repeal Obamacare and replace it with “great health care for a fraction of the price.”

Just this past week he stated that he would like to totally kill Obamacare and come up “with something that’s great.”

Trump did not have a political record to run in 2016, but he certainly does now. The question is: How many of his supporters are going to fall for the same vague, empty and clueless promises the second time around?

Arnie Grieves, Charlotte

Here’s to poll workers, first votes

There were smiles all around when our teenage daughter cast her first-ever political vote last week. She experienced an important rite of passage. We are proud of her for taking her citizenship seriously, and we commend the polling place volunteers at Messiah Lutheran Church who celebrated each first-time voter with the ringing of a bell.

It’s never too soon to practice good citizenship, or to commend the faithful volunteers who so generously staff our polling places.

Don and Sally Murphy, Charlotte