LETTERS: Bartenders must share blame for DUIs

To the editor:

It seems every day, we hear of drunken drivers involved in car accidents. Sometimes they run to avoid facing DUI charges and being hauled off to jail, and sometimes they can’t even walk. What I can’t understand is, where did they get drunk? It probably wasn’t at home, followed by a decision to go out for a drive.

No, it was probably at some bar where they didn’t get cut off soon enough and were allowed to stumble out of the establishment. Don’t we have laws that hold the bartenders accountable for how much they serve to a drunk? I know they all attend a class that is supposed to help them make good, solid decisions on how much is too much. Maybe if they were held accountable for who staggers out of their business to go injure or kill somebody, they would reflect on what the alcohol awareness class taught them.

We are all aware that a new sheriff is being elected this year, so maybe he should make drunken drivers a bigger concern of his campaign. I know I would vote for somebody who cared about me and my family. It would probably help keep insurance rates lower — ours are some of the highest in the country. I know that this drum has been beaten many times in the past, but it failed, and now we need a new drummer.

SANDY BLANCHETTE

HENDERSON

Calling out columnist

To the editor:

I wish the Review-Journal would require all of its opinion and commentary journalists to start every column with, “In my opinion …” I read the liberal, left-wing, progressive-biased opinion column of Jane Ann Morrison and could not believe all the personal opinions she used as facts (“Senate candidates hope run-and-hide campaigns work again,” Oct. 2 Review-Journal).

Ms. Morrison called two female Republican candidates spineless pawns, weaklings who bow to their campaign people and who don’t debate because they might look stupid. She says that one GOP female candidate “doesn’t look much like her signs.” What a catty remark.

Ms. Morrison also writes that Marilyn Dondero Loop is working hard with the backing of unions. All the Democratic candidates get the support of the unions; the political control keeps the unions in business.

What a disgusting smear job. This is reporting?

CLAUDETTE DORIAN

LAS VEGAS

Campaign junk mail

To the editor:

I recently received an interesting flier from the Democratic Party of Nevada. In it, Becky Harris — a Republican running for state Senate — is blamed for a law the Democrats didn’t like that was passed by the Utah Legislature in the 1990s.

At the time it was passed, Ms. Harris was working as a clerk for the Utah Legislature. Based on the flier, it would seem clerks in Utah have exceptional power. The flier readily admits she worked as a clerk, but fails to suggest how she was responsible for the passage of a bill.

If in fact Ms. Harris was clever enough to pass a bill as a clerk, we could certainly use her in Nevada. As a voter, I do not appreciate receiving junk from any party. This flier was junk.

CARL R. SADLER

LAS VEGAS

ISIS strategy

To the editor:

In reference to Joe Scharer’s letter (“Defeating ISIS,” Oct. 4 Review-Journal), first of all, ISIS isn’t a religion. President Barack Obama has said airstrikes are only intended to help buy time so that the ground forces of Iraq, the Kurds, friendly forces in Syria and now maybe even Turkey can be trained to be the boots on the ground in place of American troops. If these local fighters are successful, how many civilians does Mr. Scharer think will be killed, and how many buildings does he think will be destroyed?

JERRY MOSIER

LAS VEGAS

Senate slackers

To the editor:

Charles Krauthammer’s column on elections was welcome and overdue (“GOP progress starts with winning Senate,” Oct. 3 Review-Journal). So many liberals constantly complained that the Republican-led House was doing nothing but blocking President Barack Obama, because Congress hadn’t passed any laws.

Now, thanks to Mr. Krauthammer, we learn that the House passed hundreds of bills, but that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would not allow them to come to the floor for a vote in the Senate. So now who’s not doing their job?

WILLIAM CRAMER

LAS VEGAS