Thank you, Thelma Grimes, for your great editorial to Trump supporters about the upcoming 2024 presidential election. Although I have seldom ever been a Republican, I wanted to make sure that Ron DeSantis was accurately portrayed in this newspaper, given that he is frequently mentioned as a Trump alternative. Few people recognize how dangerous DeSantis is:

I go to Florida every few months to see an elderly stepmother. I have been watching DeSantis for some time now. I recently returned from Florida with a daily newspaper full of Ron DeSantis and his dirty tricks: 1 — He had recently fired a compassionate DA who had worked on a program to decrease recidivism for youth offenders. Because of that, and despite the fact that Ms. Worrell was elected by her constituents, DeSantis fired her and appointed one of his fanatic friends as DA. This is the second time he has arbitrarily overridden citizens’ votes for office holders. 2 — Disney World, long subjected to bullying by DeSantis because they chose to support their gay workers, finally filed suit for all of the dirty tricks DeSantis had pulled on them. 3 — DeSantis has wiped out real African American history taught in Florida and replaced it with one that teaches that “slaves were taught skills that benefitted their lives in slavery,” etc. 4 — The Florida school libraries have been wiped out due to what DeSantis feels are “sexual books for children.” (Oh, wait! Some want to do that here!) 5 — School boards have been filled with fanatic people who want religion to run their politics, (Oh, wait! That happened here!) 6 — Florida real estate moguls have had backing from DeSantis to push up real estate values to the point that ordinary citizens cannot find housing - and on, and on, and on... It’s a huge mess there in Florida, thanks to their “Ron.” He is just as, if not more, incapable of running a country as Trump was.

In the same newspaper, I see that a local Mr. Wood wants to bully all parents to not decide what their child can and cannot do by pulling books from Douglas County library shelves. Be careful, people! It’s beginning again, and the few will eventually bully the rest of us.

Adoree Blair, Highlands Ranch