Getting on Trump's train

Several weeks ago, Wisconsin was the toast of the political nation as the 'Stop Trump' movement catapulted Ted Cruz to a convincing primary victory. Conservative Republicans were downright giddy with glee. Many asserted it was time to 'take back our country' and that 'the answer is not Trump.'

Well, folks, as the band Buffalo Springfield once sang 'there's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear.' Wisconsin Republicans are now perfecting their back stroke maneuvers in waters that are muddier than Flint's drinking water! State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald's proclamation that Republicans 'are on the Trump train now' is mind-boggling ('State GOP gets on 'Trump train,'' May 5).

His call to release Wisconsin's Cruz convention delegates to vote for Trump is especially galling to those who supported Cruz and the ideas and values they admired. Unlike Trump.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has not yet received his memo from ALEC directing him to purchase his one-way ticket for the train ride into oblivion. He'll probably buy two, one for his pal Paul Ryan. They will have reserved seats on the Clown Car, dining on Trump steaks and wine.

As the Trump train begins the long journey out of the station, Gov. Scott Walker, given his disdain for trains, will grudgingly don the conductor's hat, punching train tickets. It's going to be a fun ride. All aboard!

Richard A. Bosanko



Is this a rational country?

Americans are a funny people. They fret about the loss of jobs as many drive to shopping malls in imported cars and buy the cheapest products wherever they are made.

Many worry about Islamic terrorists yet do nothing about lax drunken driving laws that kill orders of magnitude more Americans every year. Many worry about crime but never ask why Western European countries with stricter gun laws have low death rates from violent crime. Many are willing to spend on wars that destroy lives and infrastructure in the name of nation-building but are unwilling to upgrade our own crumbling infrastructure that when a bridge collapses or water becomes tainted destroys lives.

Not that they don't get angry about some of these issues, like after a deranged citizen gets access to a military weapon and opens fire on children at a school. But they soon forget.

Many thirst for knowledge about local sports teams, pop music stars or television personalities but have little accurate knowledge of the workings of government, let alone complex issues.

In election seasons, politicians feed off people's search for easy answers to their fears. In a rational country, would Donald Trump be a candidate for president?

Joseph Geck



City and state won't do enough

I want to thank the Journal Sentinel for the recent three-part front-page headline series on how slumlords are allowing our city's properties to deteriorate and the absolute failure of our city officials to do anything meaningful to protect other residents and their right to the aesthetics that we are all paying for.

I agree with the editorial in the Crossroads section of May 1, 'Getting tough with landlords.'

It's obvious that unscrupulous landlords game the system and rob taxpayers and tenants. I agree with the last sentence of the editorial that city and state officials need to do much more to stop them. However, please do not think that city or state officials are ever going to do their job of protecting the rest of us. They haven't done it for decades.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) allows private citizens to sue when there is a violation of the act. They are what are sometimes called private attorneys general. Through these private actions, they are able to force sloppy business owners to start obeying the law.

I suggest we need something like that to protect property owners from having to live next door to or down the street from eyesores.

Michael F. Hupy

Hupy and Abraham, S.C.



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