Many thanks to Rita Casaverde’s New Times commentary (“Something to remember,” April 8) calling out Jordan Cunningham’s sardonic efforts at making fun of COVID-19. When I think of the hundreds of thousands who have suffered family deaths, illnesses, and long-term side effects due to COVID-19, I find Cunningham’s remarks beyond the pale. While he and his fellow Republicans attempt to thwart President Biden’s sincere attempts to make our country’s citizens safe by vaccinating enough people for us to achieve herd immunity, we all remain at risk due to their ignorance and conspiracy-loving ways. We expect our elected leaders to exercise sound judgment; Jordan Cunningham comes up short. Sadly, when it comes to people like him, COVID-19 may have the last laugh.

Bruce Badrigian

Morro Bay

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14 Comments

  1. I DISAGREE with Bruce Badrigian!

    History will show that Jordan Cunningham, as usual, exorcized good judgement on Covid-19 and other issues. The problem with the whacky Alt Left is they are always searching for a way to bring down Assemblyman Cunningham, since they couldn’t do it at the ballot box.

    Country over Party.

  2. Well said. Cunningham consistntly supports positions that are dangeous to our community. He also supported businesses, such as Kennedy Club Fitness, that flouted state and county mandates by illegally remaining open. Besides his COVID stance, he also supports keeping Diablo open.

  3. The danger to our community is the whacky liberals!

    As a mainstream politician, Jordan Cunningham has the support of working families, and we cannot afford the political antics of people like Heidi Harmon and Adam Hill, enough is enough.

    Harmon and Hill show us that drug abuse is life abuse, and we deserve better.

    Blue Lives Matter.

  4. COVID will have the last say in the sense that it or other similar assaults on mankind will continue to surface in the decades yet to come.

    Don’t be mislead into thinking this threat is defeated with a few vaccines or even annual vaccinations.

    Viruses are protein compounds that tell cells to take certain actions remaining in place mutating and hiding below the surface of our awareness until an opportunity allows the virus to disrupt cells.

    So take care of each other without blaming politics or politicians.

  5. The politics here is US taxpayer support for the Chinese biomedical laboratory that ‘leaked’ the virus in Wuhan, China.

    Chinese politicians ought to be held accountable for a virus that has killed over 4 million human beings needlessly, and American politicians ought to be held accountable for failures at the local, state and national level in responding appropriately to the threat that Covid-19 posed to our people.

    To advocate that politicians not be held accountable is a prescription for disaster, and, the fast=tracked development of an effective vaccine has largely allowed our society to reopen, and faxed people are significantly healthier for having gotten the shots.

    We need a thorough investigation into the Chinese Communist party role in their military lab.

  6. Great idea, Trumper troll, “Steve Edwards,” we will buy you a one way ticket to mainland China. So long, bye-bye for ever! Let’s send Jim, “gerrymander” Jordan with him!

  7. G.GordenFugly=Aaron=Satchmo=Rightword=MickeySmith=AdamHillCocaine=NJ Rabbit=SameUselessLiberalDupes

    Get it? Our ‘friend’, G.GordenFugly must have benefitted from the Sheriff emptying the drunk tank or else maybe his case manager hasn’t noticed that he’s off his meds again, either way, what a pathetic useless troll!

    Funny how all the libetards were outraged when the former president called for a thorough investigation into the plausibility of a lab leak in Wuhan, China being the source of Covid 19, but now, with a liberal in office, they embrace the idea of an investigation!

    Liberal hypocrisy at its worst!

    600,000 American deaths, over 4 million deaths worldwide. The Chinese Communist need to be held accountable for the Wuhan Virus and the deaths of millions of people.

    Speak truth to power.

  8. Jordan Cunningham: please denounce and disavow any connection you may have with your rabid, hate-fueled violence promoting white supremacist supporter who goes by the name of Steve Edwards.
    This is important so as not to allow the worst of the worst of racist bigots to gain a political or social foothold on the central coast. Thank you.

  9. G.GordenFugly=Aaron=Satchmo=Rightword=MickeySmithe=NJ Rabbit=SameUselessLiberalDupes!

    I live in the head of these trolls, so I thank them for the free rent!

    Heidi Harmon, Dawn Addis, James Paulding and Caren Ray Rossum ought to denounce these trolls, they support BLM rioters, tearing down tributes to slain Officer Luca Benedetti, shutting down Hwy 101(and shattering glass windows onto babies), Antifa rioting & looting, and other heinous deeds committed by the crazy alt-left.

    Lets all denounce these whacky libetards and reject their dark prescription for our lives. They support the BLM-inspired assassination of Officer Benedetti, support Alex Catlett, the Cal Poly Fool who tore down signs honoring Officer Benedetti, support the shutdowns of Hwy 101 and shattering glass onto babies, and they embrace liberal, out-of-the-mainstream politics that work against working families on the Central Coast.

    Get it? These sanctimonious, so-called progressives cannot stand that there are moderate and conservative voices in our community who offer an alternative to their whacky liberalism. They are intellectual lightweights and they dishonor the very diversity which makes our community so special. In their weakness, they prefer a liberal echo chamber to bonafide debate, because they know that their lame ideas cannot stand up under scrutiny. Sad.

    Reject Progressivism/Reject Communism
    Support Blue Lives Matter
    Reject Cancel Culture
    Reject Phony Woke Trolls
    Vote Out Harmon/Paulding/Ray Rossum
    Investigate REAL Source of Covid 19: Chinese Communists Military Lab
    No Biden/Harris Political Correctness
    No Open Borders/Sanctuary City
    End Abortion-On-Demand: Babys Lives Matter

  10. I must thank our friend, Rightweird, for letting me live rent-free in his head!

    As we reflect on local politicians, I think our local Progressive/Communists have a Bad Enough
    Hall-of-Fame lineup:

    1. Adam Hill: Nothing like a cocaine addict as your progressive leader! (FBI Investigated!)
    2. Bruce Gibson: Do Nothing Libetard, predictable in his party-line votes!
    3. Heidi Harmon: Adams Partner-in-Crime; nice all around package of Racists, Sexists, and Incompetence!
    4. Caren Ray Rossum: AGs Infamous Mayor, Always chooses Libetard policies, even at cost to Taxpayers.
    5. Little Jimmy Paulding: Desperate in his Ambition, Lawyer, Willing to Cover for Progressive/Socialists/Communists Turds.

    Get it? Our entire Central Coast has suffered because of the progressive/socialists/communists mentality, and working families CANNOT afford their foolishness, we must work to defeat and minimize their influence on our lives.

    Register & Vote for Small Government, Low Taxes and Broad Freedom.
    DO NOT support Bought-and-Paid For Special-Interest Libetard Politicians.
    Blue Lives Matter
    Reject BLM/Antifa Criminality.
    Prosecute Tianna Arrata, Edward Zamora Guillon & Alex Catlett
    End Highway 101 Takeovers, No Smashing Glass onto Babys.

  11. The Hate and Fear Party agrees: Dump Cunningham and vote for Steve Edwards for Assembly!

  12. The Sheriff must have emptied the drunk tank, the booze heads are back!

    G.GordenFugly=Aaron=Satchmo=Rightword=MickeySmithe=NJ Rabbit=SameUselessLiberalDupes!

    I live in the head of these trolls, so I thank them for the free rent!

    Heidi Harmon, Dawn Addis, James Paulding and Caren Ray Rossum ought to denounce these trolls, they support BLM rioters, tearing down tributes to slain Officer Luca Benedetti, shutting down Hwy 101(and shattering glass windows onto babies), Antifa rioting & looting, and other heinous deeds committed by the crazy alt-left.

    Lets all denounce these whacky libetards and reject their dark prescription for our lives. They support the BLM-inspired assassination of Officer Benedetti, support Alex Catlett, the Cal Poly Fool who tore down signs honoring Officer Benedetti, support the shutdowns of Hwy 101 and shattering glass onto babies, and they embrace liberal, out-of-the-mainstream politics that work against working families on the Central Coast.

    Get it? These sanctimonious, so-called progressives cannot stand that there are moderate and conservative voices in our community who offer an alternative to their whacky liberalism. They are intellectual lightweights and they dishonor the very diversity which makes our community so special. In their weakness, they prefer a liberal echo chamber to bonafide debate, because they know that their lame ideas cannot stand up under scrutiny. Sad.

    Reject Progressivism/Reject Communism
    Support Blue Lives Matter
    Reject Cancel Culture
    Reject Phony Woke Trolls
    Vote Out Harmon/Paulding/Ray Rossum
    Investigate REAL Source of Covid 19: Chinese Communists Military Lab
    No Biden/Harris Political Correctness
    No Open Borders/Sanctuary City
    End Abortion-On-Demand: Babys Lives Matter

  13. Steve edwards is as usual…correct….this head fungus of the left must be eradicated….

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