LETTERS: Question 3 loss indeed overwhelming

To the editor:

Regarding Brad Zucroff’s letter, it always amazes me the lengths to which liberals will go to show that their loss was really a “win” (“Question 3 loss hardly overwhelming,” Nov. 20 Review-Journal). There are a few things Mr. Zucroff missed in his math lesson to the masses.

First, registered voters are not necessarily actual voters and cannot be counted in computing the percentage of a win or loss. To do so, those people would have to vote. Second, the implied assumption in Mr. Zucroff’s letter is that, if they had voted, Question 3 would have passed. This is a real leap, as they may have voted in about the same ratio as those who defeated the margins tax proposal.

Finally, a lesson I learned in studying rules of order is that a nonvote is not against an action, but a vote with the majority. If you feel differently, then vote.

Maybe we’re not as dumb as liberals think, and columnist Glenn Cook’s assertion that opposition to Question 3 was “overwhelming” was correct (“An irrelevant caucus no more,” Nov. 16 Review-Journal). Nonvoter apathy was also overwhelming.

SUSAN HICKS

LAS VEGAS

Ferguson and voters

To the editor:

We have heard much about the events in Ferguson, Mo., in the past few months. Activists and even the president have chimed in on race relations in that city and in the entire country. I haven’t heard anyone who makes any sense.

According to early media reports, Ferguson is a city with a black population of about 70 percent, with a white mayor and five of six city council members also white, and a police force of about 50 officers, of which only three are black.

With that in mind, who is responsible for the racist conditions that are said to exist in Ferguson? Look at the numbers. A large majority of the city’s population is black, but they are unable to elect even black representatives to the city council? The same city council that is responsible for managing the local police force, which currently has almost no black representation? None of this makes any sense.

Where are the community activists when the time comes to register black voters, get them to the polls and take over the government of that city? Where was Rev. Al Sharpton? Where was Rev. Jesse Jackson? Where was President Barack Obama? Where were the president’s former Acorn associates?

It appears to me that black control of this community would be a foregone conclusion if these people were properly organized. But they were not. These so-called “organizers” are only in it for the money, the publicity and the power. They don’t give a fig for the people they claim to represent, using them only to further their own greedy purposes.

JAMES M. MAGNUSON

LAS VEGAS

Immigration and voters

To the editor:

I don’t understand the rationale for giving those who entered and are living in the U.S. illegally a preferential path to American citizenship ahead of those who are legally waiting in line for long periods of time. Just what did they do to deserve this special treatment?

Liberals claim it’s necessary because the existing system is broken. In what way? They also claim that immigrants will spend what they make here and improve our economy. That’s not true. They’ll turn a large rental home into a dormitory for a dozen workers, and send most of the money back home.

I honestly don’t believe politicians care for the immigrants’ welfare and are really only interested in increasing their voting bloc. I honestly believe that if he could get away with it, President Barack Obama would declare them American citizens in time to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

WILLIAM CRAMER

LAS VEGAS