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GOP is hiding from
policies’ unpopularity

Re: “Restive Democrats vent frustrations” (Page A1, March 30).

Sunday’s front-page article on “Restive Democrats” should really have been headlined, “Restive voters.”

The illegal efforts of Donald Trump and unelected billionaire Elon Musk to wreck our government are deeply unpopular with everyone. Their actions are so disliked that the House Republican Congressional Committee advised their members to stop holding in-person town halls because their voters are so upset.

This country will not get on the right track as long as Republican politicians keep hiding from the truth.

Patrick Grimes
San Jose

Article didn’t capture
breadth of Taylor’s vision

Re: “Frank Taylor’s mixed legacy for San Jose” (Page A6, March 27).

Scott Herhold’s recollection of Frank Taylor was appreciated. As positive as it was in tone and content, it did not capture the essence of Frank or his vision of the city.

With the support of the City Council, the Redevelopment Agency focused on making the downtown a place citizens would claim as their own and not some distant void in the ever-expanding universe of San Jose. The first key to this vision was to build quality product that would last through the vagaries of budgets. The second was to create a downtown in which children could be engaged in cultural events that would hold their interests into adulthood and thereby become a multigenerational destination and source of civic pride and engagement.

Bill Ekern
San Jose

Google does disservice
by ignoring Chavez

Where was Google on March 31? There was no mention of Cesar Chavez’s birthday. Chavez co-founded the National Farmworkers Association alongside Dolores Huerta. Nothing even in the Doodle Library since 2013.

Now is the time to be thinking critically about the narratives we share. Many of us spend our time talking about the world’s problems, criticizing faraway places’ social circumstances, and eagerly adoring histories that have not shaped our today. Failure to acknowledge the works of Chavez and other civil rights leaders contributes to the erasure of histories more palpable to those who live, work, worship, play and struggle beside us. The fruits of the labor of farmworkers in this valley produced the fertile land where the current Google headquarters lies.

We hope Google can recognize the many contributors of this valley, like Cesar Chavez and the movement for labor rights, in years to come.

Samantha Brown
San Jose

Protests dishonor
work of DOGE, Musk

Re: “Restive Democrats vent frustrations” (Page A1, March 30).

After watching myriad Tesla and Elon Musk protests, it is obvious none of the participants have bothered to visit DOGE.gov. If they had, they would realize their mindless slogans are completely misplaced and misguided. It is clear when asked why they’re protesting, the scripted response and Hitler references lack any serious legitimacy or logic.

Blind hate of Donald Trump has this group objecting to a legitimate chance to save our country from the growing hole our government bureaucracy keeps digging. It’s time for these folks to open their eyes.

Henry Rissier
Hollister

Pardon another step
toward U.S. oligarchy

Re: “Convicted of fraud, Nikola founder is pardoned” (Page A4, March 29).

I thought Donald Trump was ill-advised to pardon the whole group of Capitol pillagers but noted it as an effort to gain civilian support from people with aggressive tendencies.

He just pardoned Trevor Milton, who pulled a fast one on investors with his electric vehicle, Nikola, that didn’t run. Sentenced to four years in prison, Milton’s luck came as payback for his $1.8 million donation to Trump’s reelection campaign.

The business sense of Trump was shockingly shown in pushing Volodymyr Zelenskyy into a corner, demanding control of Ukraine’s minerals to repay for war materials. Trump sees the Gilded Age of oligarchs ruling the country as the America he seeks to bring back. Medicaid is under severe attack, and Medicare and Social Security are next. His entire entourage plays their part well, basked in schadenfreude.

It is clear that Trump wants to run things along with the oligarchs, but democracy is in the way.

David Eisbach
San Jose

Trump wants it both
ways on education

Re: “Gender notification law draws ire of feds as probe initiated” (Page A1, March 28).

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I am both amused and appalled by today’s article regarding the persecution of the state of California by the U.S. Department of Education, regarding AB 1955, which prohibits schools from requiring staff to notify families if their child uses a name that differs from the one on their birth certificate or uses a pronoun that doesn’t conform with the child’s stated gender.

Donald Trump has stated many times that he wants the Department of Education to be dismantled in favor of states governing their own systems of public education, and now he wants to prosecute his enemy, the state of California, under federal education laws. Great job, Trump, trying to have your cake and eat it, too.

Ruth Crabtree
San Jose