Hawks owner only cares about fat cats
It would be outrageous to take the tax revenue from the many Atlantans to make Phillips Arena more plush for a few fat cats. Architecturally, Phillips Arena is the best arena in the NBA precisely because the private boxes are stacked on one side. This means Phillips Arena’s upper deck is closer to the basketball court than any other arena in the NBA.
But the new owner of the Hawks does not care about fans who sit in the upper deck. He only cares about a few fat cats. And he is determined that Atlanta taxpayers must pay to make Phillips Arena more plush for the fat cats.
WALTER WATKINS, ATLANTA
Pro-enforcement is not “anti-immigrant”
Jay Bookman (“Snub of judge will echo,” Opinion, Jan. 10) seems to look at the world through the lens of race, skin color and ethnicity. Apparently he assumes that the rest of us suffer from the same disability. We don’t.
Like the late Barbara Jordan, it is my long-held position that we cannot honor real immigrants unless we adhere to a policy of an equal application of our immigration laws. It is not “anti-immigrant” to demand immigration enforcement.
Bookman provides useful insight by labeling that view “extremist.
Confirmation of GALEO’s Dax Lopez for federal judge is not being opposed because of his ethnicity, but because of what he has said and done as a director of the GALEO corporation for 11 years.
Dax Lopez’s statement that he “agrees with their mission” must always be viewed with the knowledge that, since 2003, the corporate-funded GALEO Inc. has viciously condemned law enforcement officers who dare to enforce immigration laws. GALEO has marched in the streets of Georgia for another amnesty, lobbied against state E-Verify laws designed to protect legal workers, against local jails honoring ICE holds for criminal aliens and vehemently opposed voter ID. And they lobby against English as our official language.
No wonder Lopez is not speaking to the press.
D.A. KING, MARIETTA, PRESIDENT, DUSTIN INMAN SOCIETY
