Editor,
Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign was successful mainly because Biden was his opponent. Now, the supervisors of San Mateo County, most being blatantly Democratic, claim they are saving democracy from Trump when it is their own Democratic party’s handling of the Biden campaign that resulted in a Trump win.
Some voters saw no choice but to vote for Trump, Biden being obviously senile. The candidacy was then given to a person not even nominated by a convention, further alienating voters.
The Biden presidency was the latest example of the Democratic history of supporting senior officeholders who stay in office too long (Wall Street Journal, Sept. 13, 2025). Remember Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 90 years old, who died in her sleep?
Now the California Democratic supervisors claim their intended gerrymandering is motivated by the “need” to save democracy, not by the desire to increase their party’s already large government majority while depriving independent and Republican voters of representation.
The supervisors of San Mateo County are developing a bad habit: to increase the odds they’ll get what they want, they change an established procedure, then label their change as “saving democracy” or something similarly self-congratulatory. The first example is the sheriff situation. Second example is gerrymandering California election districts to increase the already large percentage of Democratic seats. Possibly some supervisors hope to guarantee jobs for themselves in future Democratic administrations if they show their loyalty now.
Jane James
San Mateo
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(1) comment
Thanks for your letter, Ms. James, highlighting the hypocrisy and the kowtowing of Democrats to their vocal and rabid leftist Democrat minority to irrationally rationalize their Democrat threat to democracy. These Democrats, not just supervisors, hope to guarantee not just jobs for themselves but more importantly, campaign funds. If they don’t bend the knee to their Democrat overlords and do what they’re told, they’ll lose funding. On the bright side, thanks to Newsom starting a redistricting war, I believe Missouri redistricted another potential Republican seat. I believe Indiana and Florida are pondering redistricting, also.
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