The current heat wave, coupled with the recent decision by the California Air Resources Board to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, raises a very serious question. With Flex alerts (requiring people to conserve energy to avoid brownouts or blackouts) almost a daily occurrence with this heat wave, how would people charge their electric cars during a heat wave in 2035 without crashing the grid? Would people have to choose between air conditioning in their homes or being able to drive to work?
Noel D’Angelo, Thousand Oaks
Jeff Gorell has the skills set and actual direct experience to be an incredible Ventura County Supervisor. Gorrell’s first priority is to reinforce public safety, not to shrink it.
Gorell has a long-term stellar record of public safety in Ventura County. He was our Assistant District Attorney for seven years, he worked tirelessly to protect our communities by putting drug dealers and violent criminals behind bars. Retired Ventura County District Attorneys Greg Totten and Mike Bradberry have endorsed him.
Gorell is also endorsed by the firefighters and deputy sheriffs. From 2014 through 2021, Gorell led City of Los Angeles Homeland Security strategy for America’s second largest city including the Port of L.A., LAX, and the special major incident response teams. No major incidents happened on his watch. Jeff received special training to help manage and prevent major incidents by various Homeland Defense agencies.
Gorell is currently a decorated captain in the Navy Reserve. He served two tours in Afghanistan and the Middle East as an intelligence officer. He served two terms in the California Assembly representing the people in District No. 2. During that time, he served as the Assembly co-budget committee chair and represented our fiscal conservative values. Public safety is No. 1 on the ballot in November. Crime in Ventura County is up, fire risk is way up, and water is a huge problem.
Democrat Claudia Bill-de la Peña will take her orders from Sacramento and Washington. Ask yourself, the next time you’re at the gas pump or in the market: How is this working out for me and my family? Join your friends, family, and neighbors voting for the only creditable candidate, Jeff Gorell. A candidate you can depend on to fight for you and your family’s future.
Sign of times on 1st day of school
Glancing at The Star’s front page the other day (“Back to Class” on Aug. 18) gave me an unpleasant case of goosebumps. Camarillo High students filing in on the first day of school through their tightly controlled, one-direction gated entrance and surrounded by uncompromisingly close-knit metal mesh fencing, a sea of mostly grim looking faces — presumably highly surveilled — walking past a couple lonely little balloons trying in vain to convey a sense of lightness as they hung from a stark steel guardrail.
I suppose the scene makes a special kind of sense if the Lock-’Em-Up politicians and other public fearmongers really are having the renaissance they seem to be enjoying, preparing young people early for their likely roles in the world they’re inheriting from us. Perhaps all those future cages won’t feel quite so cagey if that’s all a kid’s ever known, right? I sure hope them youngsters have all have their papers ready to show on command.
Land of the free, home of the brave, and God bless us everyone.