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Re: the Sept. 30 article "Walkup is against Prop. 105 though he misread it."

Prop. 105 is without a doubt one of the most dangerous initiatives I have ever seen.Supporters say it is about fiscal responsibility. This is most definitely not the case.

All Prop. 105 does is amend the Constitution to count voters who don't vote, including those who have died but are still on the rolls.

People often skip initiatives because they may not understand them. If you vote but skip an initiative, Prop. 105 would require that your non-vote be counted as a "no" vote. That is undemocratic and wrong.

Voters already addressed the issue of fiscal responsibility and initiatives in 2004. Today the Constitution as amended by voters in 2004 (see Article 9, Section 23) states that voters cannot pass any initiative without a source of revenue being part of the same package. That was an amendment that addressed fiscal responsibility. Prop. 105 simply makes voting unfair.

Re: the Sept. 30 article "Walkup is against Prop. 105 though he misread it."

Jason LeVecke claimed to be backing Prop. 105 so an individual or organization couldn't hold our state hostage. So what does he do? He writes an amendment to our Constitution that will destroy the citizen's initiative process.

He further claims this was deliberate because the Legislature is better at handling such proposals than the citizens are.

Under Prop. 105, any registered voters who do not show up to vote are counted as automatic "no" votes. If voter turnout is one vote less than 50 percent, all future initiatives would automatically fail, even if 100 percent of those voting voted "yes."

Prop. 105 is falsely titled "Majority Rules — Let the People Decide." The real title should be "Minority Dictates — Silence the People." Prop. 105 is an amendment that will require Arizona to count people who don't vote. We cannot let LeVecke hijack our state. Vote no on 105.

What lesson should we all learn from the present financial debacle? Don't live on your credit card(s). Learn to live within your means. You deserve what you desire if you can pay cash.

John McCain, Sarah Palin and the Republican Party are consistently trying to take credit for so many things. Well, let's give them credit.

Give them credit for the financial disaster this country is currently in. Give McCain credit for his lack of leadership when he inserted himself in the bailout process which ultimately resulted in its initial defeat.

Give McCain credit for helping involve us in a misguided war and continuing to support a war machine that is taking the lives of America's finest young people. Give McCain credit for ignoring the real threat to the United States, which always was and is Afghanistan.

Give McCain credit for blindly following Bush in his failed economic and international policies.

Re: the Oct. 1 article "Coaches, prospects now less trustful."

Every day there seems to be another story that is designed to make the basketball program, and especially Lute Olson, look bad.

That this program has survived with all of the Star's vindictive stories is a tribute to the man. It is especially horrible when it writes these stories concerning recruits when the basketball staff is forbidden by the NCAA to defend itself.

The Star says that the basketball staff will not speak to its writers. Does anyone blame them?

In a few years Lute will be gone, we will be back to a 4-24 record and the attendance will be back to 3,000 per game. I don't know what the Star will write about then.

Re: the Oct. 1 editorial "Grand Canyon no place for uranium mining."

There are no exploration activities within the park, nor will there ever be in the future.

The nation needs to define what the park boundaries are and stop trying to change them whenever an exploration company stakes a new claim. Once defined, the new boundaries will be respected as completely as the current ones are.

This has nothing to do with the structure of the 1872 mining law nor any of its subsequent revisions.

Re: the Oct. 2 Caliente front cover and article "Dogcentric."

Having designed many Hallmark Cards social-expression products from 1960 to 1985 and worked in the photo studio back before scanners and the digital magic of PhotoShop, I can appreciate the studio and PhotoShop work done to create the dog poker game.

Thanks for a great article and an opportunity to download the picture and send the article to friends and family.

While I have agreed with David Fitzsimmons' satiric artistry only 99.9 percent of the time, his Oct. 2 "Extreme Makeover" cartoon should go down in the annals of classic political cartoons of the 21st century. What a nail on the head!