{"id":83390,"date":"2025-07-22T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83390\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:28:08","slug":"kristi-noem-should-take-a-cue-from-reagan-when-it-comes-to-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83390\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem should take a cue from Reagan when it comes to L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganlibrary.gov\/archives\/speech\/presidents-news-conference-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thirty-nine years ago<\/a>, President Reagan stated in a news conference, \u201cThe nine most terrifying words in the English language are \u2018I\u2019m from the government and I\u2019m here to help.\u2019\u201d Reagan was held in the highest regard by Republicans for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Republican Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, \u201cWe are staying [in Los Angeles] to liberate this city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country, and what they have tried to insert into this city\u201d (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2025-07-20\/six-months-into-trumps-second-term-california-is-a-key-battleground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAfter six months under Trump, California and L.A. are battlegrounds. Who benefits?,\u201d<\/a> July 20).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing how the party of Lincoln would pivot to the party of being hypocritical. When it comes to state\u2019s rights, President Trump has endorsed them when they work to his benefit. Meanwhile, we have local elections for mayors and governors. If we don\u2019t like what our elected officials do, we can vote them out or recall them. And those who don\u2019t like the results can move to a state that\u2019s more to their liking. The system works when the federal government doesn\u2019t interfere.<\/p>\n<p>Noem, pay attention to Reagan. Don\u2019t help.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Saeta, Santa Rosa Valley<\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: California versus President Trump? Too limited. It\u2019s Trump versus the media, the judiciary, education, healthcare, science, immigrants, trade and political alliances, foreign aid, climate change, lower and middle classes, academia and truth, democracy and the Constitution themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Winfield Wilson, Redondo Beach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Thirty-nine years ago, President Reagan stated in a news conference, \u201cThe nine most terrifying words&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2451,56718,7129,454,3153,2399,6276,2961,29997,224,2444,5337,12176,13032,159,290,277],"class_list":{"0":"post-83390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-city","11":"tag-cue","12":"tag-editor","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-governor","15":"tag-kristi-noem","16":"tag-l-a","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-last-month","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-times","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-mayor","23":"tag-reagan","24":"tag-science","25":"tag-state","26":"tag-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114897361606086958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}