The Texas bill will allow partisan “poll watchers” to intimidate election workers and voters. It will also expand the authority of the courts to void election results based on voter fraud allegations.
In this June 4, 2020, file photo, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., speaks during a subcommittee hearing about the Covid-19 response on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Herrera Beutler said she would vote in support of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney in what was ultimately a successful effort to oust Cheney from Republican House leadership. Credit: (Al Drago/Pool via AP, File)
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Letter: Balentine suffers from political party syndrome
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As a biomedical scientist who wrote the letter “Balentine no health expert, reader is,” Dec. 4, and having been exposed to John Balentine’s opinion for many years, I believe he suffers from an all-too-common malady, i.e., the political party syndrome, a component of which is “selective forgetfulness” (PPS-SF). Persons presenting with PPS-SF have difficulty in forming an opinion WITHOUT “selectively” omitting relevant and, at times, inconvenient facts/truths to buttress their verbal/written expressions. Therefore, the opinions uttered by individuals who display PPS-SF are both shallow and often without merit.
In Mr. Balentine’s PPS-SF-induced opinion, he believes all our problems are due to the cancel culture (CC), “… how it’s (CC) diverting attention away from … things being done to our country by inept, cajoling, fearful national and state leadership” (“‘Oh, dear,’ cancel culture is a sh