Email to COD Board of Trustees

I'm writing regarding COD Board Chairman Frank Napolitano's FB post on DuPage Conservatives requesting comment on the COD faculty contract negotiations. Frank says the Board is committed to a fair outcome. How can he say that when the Board is needlessly conducting a mass hiring of adjunct faculty precisely when negotiations are in a critical stage? It sure looks like a 'hardball' tactic to intimidate faculty to settle for less than a fair contract. I await your response to my request regarding this transparent negotiating tactic that does not respect the teachers of our DuPage community college students. 

Walt Zlotow
Glen Ellyn

On assault weapon ban it's Democrats 200 to 1 over GOP

Anyone who doesn't believe the GOP is controlled by the NRA just needs a tally sheet on House Bill H.R. 5087, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019. It bans the manufacture, sale, import, transfer and possession of semi-automatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition clips. Introduced by Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline, it garnered 200 Democratic co-sponsored, and not single Republican. Finally, after 2 gun slaughters in 2 days, a lone Republican, Pete King of NY, signed on. The GOP is apparently taking its cue from the President who meekly tweeted for 'some form of gun control' after the carnage, than backed off saying "There' no political appetite for an assault weapons ban". Really, Mr. President? Seven in ten voters want it including two-thirds of GOP women. Trump and the GOP, in lockstep, stock and barrel with the NRA...and America's endless gun bloodbath.