EDITORIAL
BY DHIREN SHAH
Hello Readers,
Canadian activist Khalistan Sikh was assassinated in June 2023 and on September 19, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he had been murdered by an Indian Government lead team. India denied the claim. The US and UK stand behind Canada as close allies. Canada expelled a high ranking Indian official and in retaliation, India expelled a high ranking Canadian official.
On top of traffic lights, you may find small signals or a light that is placed on top of the signals or on the side of the signals in major parts of the United States. What is this small light signal? This is called a priority or preemptive signal. Emergency vehicles have access to those signals. By communicating with those systems, the regular signals might turn red on all sides or some places as a blinking light. This gives way for the emergency vehicles in the direction the emergency vehicle is going, and afterwards the light will restart for the regular signal. This is a really good system to help emergency vehicles through the traffic lights. According to hospital data, this system has saved about 11 seconds per signal to pass through.
The Republican primary presidential hopefuls are taking to TV and media. However, I haven’t seen any enthusiasm with the community here. And the Democratic Party primary has no interest, as Biden is about 50 points ahead of Kennedy. For the Republicans, Trump is still 43 points ahead of Ron DeSantis. Since the second Republican presidential debate, Nikki Haley has gone ahead of Vivek Ramaswamy in the national polls from fourth place to third place. Ron DeSantis has received the most contributions, but about $130 million behind Trump. All other candidates have not crossed $20 million yet.
The Republicans have a thin margin in Congress. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with the support of some Democrats, passed a temporary bill to extend government funding for another 45 days. It happened with all the presidents, and many times with the cities as well. It is a process.
However, Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz was so upset that he proposed a resolution to remove McCarthy as Speaker. According to the new law, only one congressperson can propose to remove the Speaker of the House. Now, only a simple majority was needed to accomplish this. Gaetz has received some support from Republican representatives who were opposing him before. The main concern for Gaetz and other Republicans is that with the funding extension to avoid a government shutdown, McCarthy has not kept his word and has helped President Biden. They want to control the budget, and make sure that less illegal immigrants come to the United States, and less money goes to Ukraine.
On Oct. 3, McCarthy was removed in a 216-210 vote. This is sad. It sends the message, “Party over the People – or else.” (We did not get a new speaker as of press time unfortunately.)
Senator Dianne Feinstein has passed away at the age of 90. She was asked to resign or not to run for reelection (she later changed her mind, but was too late). However, she was reluctant, and California was naive to vote for her at the age of 87. Once any senator or congressperson passes away, the governor of that state has the right to appoint for the replacement of his/her term.
California governor Gavin Newsom appointed the President of Emily’s Laphonza Butler as the replacement. In 2021, Newsom announced that he would appoint a black female for any vacated position. He kept his word and announced Butler, whose worth is about $16 million dollars and had an income last year of about $5 million. She claims herself as lesbian, was married and got about $4.6 million in a settlement. She owns a villa in Beverly Hills valued at $3.9 million. However, I think Newsom had a good pick. Butler is smart, intelligent and knows how to manage.
Have a wonderful week. I’ll talk to you next week.
