Shameful for Trump to rewrite 9/11 history | Letters

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I would think that one would have to go far and wide to fine anyone in the United States who doesn’t know about 9/11, but apparently one only has to go as far as Bedminster.

Former President Donald Trump was asked for a comment about the protest at his Trump National Golf Club by families of 9/11 victims, because the club is controversially hosting a tournament organized by a new Saudi Arabia-backed professional golfing association.

Trump said, I don’t know much about the 9/11 families, I don’t know what is the relationship to this, and their very strong feelings, and I can understand their feelings. I can’t really comment on that because I don’t know exactly what they’re saying, and what they’re saying who did what.

That Trump is hosting this Saudi funded tournament is shameful enough but to claim ignorance of the feelings of these families, their relationship to this, what they are saying, and who did what, is beyond unconscionable.

Robert Frankel, Branchburg

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The poor pay more to use their cars

With 65,000 fully electric vehicles registered in New Jersey, traveling an average of 12,000 miles annually, the state Transportation Trust Fund is receiving zero revenue on over 750,000 miles driven annually. The fund is supported by motor fuel taxes and is not collected on electric charging.

The TTF is required to maintain a $2 billion balance to support highway and bridge infrastructure, and the fuel tax rate is adjusted annually to maintain this amount.

If you are rich enough to purchase an EV, Gov. Phil Murphy has announced that the state will subsidize your purchase with up to $4,000, and give you $250 toward a home charging station. If you are not rich enough to afford an EV, the state raises your gas tax to cover the revenue lost because electric vehicle owners are not paying their fair share for their road use,

The rich get richer and the poor get to pay more at the pump. Where is the equity, Gov. Murphy?

Robert Wojtkowiak, Sayreville

Campaign war chest fits US Rep. who is a vet

Gregory Borsinger, the writer of the recent letter (US Rep. Mikie) Sherrills money advantage a sad state of affairs, seems to conveniently overlook the fact that the US Senate and House are a home for life for the multimillionaire politicians who purport to represent their constituents but, in fact, are there to take care of big businesses needs.

Sherrill, D-11th Dist., is a former combat veteran who piloted helicopters, which is more than can be said for the latest crop of young Republicans running for office carrying the Make America Great Again banner.

The fact that Sherrills Nov. 8 opponents are unable to raise any substantial sums to finance their campaigns, says it all. Sherrills constituents in a red county prefer her to represent them in the House over the wannabes from the Republican Party.

John F. Hessel, Monroe Township, Middlesex County

Snap judgment about trademark source?

What’s all this brouhaha between the Yankees Aaron Judge and Michael P. Chisena over trademark rights to Here Comes the Judge? Chisena claims to have filed an application sooner than the player to use the phrase on merchandise and other intellectual property.

Everybody knows the rights should belong to the late Sammy Davis Jr., who used the catchphrase in a recurring skit on Rowan and Martins Laugh-In in the late 1960s. Davis would come out in a powdered wig and a black robe, with some sort of toy gavel, and you would hear Here comes the judge. Here comes the judge. Order in the court cause Here comes the judge!

Case closed.

Les Stolarz, Boonton

Editors note: As the current trademark battle goes on, multiple sources cite comedian Dewey Pigmeat Markham as the originator of the phrase, part of his standup act, decades before Davis performed it on Laugh-In. A record with the lyrics was a hit in 1968; it was also used in routines by Flip Wilson.

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