Opinion: What's this? Common sense from an Arizona Republican leader?

I agree with just about everything Sen. Warren Petersen says in support of Proposition 137 .

Voting to retain scores of probably fine judges is a big waste of time when we fill out our ballots. Hardly any voters know who these judges are, and most of us go through the ritual of voting to retain them to prevent the crazies from unseating someone whose politics the crazies don't like.

My reservation about Petersen's sensible reasoning is Petersen is one of the crazy innumerate Republicans who claimed they didn't trust the vote in 2020.

And worse, hired amazingly innumerate auditors to audit the vote on behalf of the innumerate Republicans.

Is Petersen's support of Proposition 137 a sign that the Republican Party, once famous for common sense and good government, has finally come back to its senses?

Jim McManus, Phoenix

Proof that good people exist

Have you ever wondered if there any good people left in the world? Well, there are!

I was at my local Home Depot buying garden plants, fertilizer and tubs for plants. The tub was 21 gallons (huge). I'm 80 years old, and it was going to be hard getting it home on my battery-operated scooter.

A nice, kind lady said that it would be hard to try getting my stuff home and said she would take it home for me. She left the delivery in my driveway and left before I could get home. So, I couldn't even offer her anything for her kindness.

I want to let her and others know how much I appreciated her act of kindness. THANK YOU so much.

Darlene M. Perry, Mesa

Why I'm voting for Kari Lake

Housing is unaffordable, food is unaffordable, entertainment is unaffordable ... in what world does this deserve to get the people who are already there sent back to Washington?

Ruben Gallego talks a big game, but what has he ever done?

I'm voting for Kari Lake because I can't afford four more years of this economy.

Stephen Korn, Chandler

ASU shouldn't snub Al McCoy

The tributes to Al McCoy continue following his passing. It was a lost opportunity for the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

A few months back, they selected next year's recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award , and they chose CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Huh? This follows other recipients such as Gayle King, Al Roker and Lester Holt. Really?

I would hope that the state's largest public university could find a way to include some local people important to the state's, and the country's, broadcasting legacy. I thought of pioneer children's TV hosts Bill Thompson and Lad Kwiatkowski (of "The Wallace and Ladmo Show"). Lad even went to what is now ASU.

Of course, there was Rex Allen, Steve Allen, Pat McMahon, Ray Odom. And at the top of the list, Al McCoy, whose contributions to Arizona sports broadcasting is deep and rich. I doubt if Blitzer, King and Holt have even been to Arizona.

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Al McCoy was still around and retired when Blitzer got this award. It would have been nice to honor McCoy while he was still with us.

It makes you want to ask: When we attend a funeral of someone who has passed, how many opportunities were previously missed to say "thank you" and "we appreciate you" while they still can enjoy it?

Charles Lopresto, Phoenix

LDS members will choose Trump

The Stephanie Murray piece in the Sept. 21 edition (" Ariz. Mormon advisory group backs Harris bid ") is very deceiving and seems intentionally so. The headline and the story create an impression that the 450,000 LDS voters in Arizona might favor Harris.

In fact, this is the hope of a 51-member startup group.

Trump will win 80% of the Mormon vote.

Terrence P. Woods, Phoenix

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