Steve Garvey deserves to lose, and it’s not because he voted for Trump

To the editor: If former Dodgers great Steve Garvey loses next week in the election for U.S. Senator from California, it won’t be because he’s a Republican in a Democratic state. It’s because he’s a political neophyte running for an important, powerful office on the platform of being a MAGA mini-me. (“Garvey had better luck against the Yankees in 1981 than in the November election,” column, Oct. 25)

In other words, he took the field without a glove, without a warm-up or even any training or knowledge of the game. In all the years I’ve lived in Palm Desert, I don’t remember him being involved in any local activities. I didn’t even know he lived here.

I give him credit for being a mini-Trump. It appears he has done poorly in business, and his praise for tough immigration tactics indicates his ignorance of the devastating effect mass deportation would have on Coachella Valley residents and businesses, let alone Californians and national economies.

It doesn’t matter which party someone like Garvey registers with; he has no business in the Senate. He deserves this loss.

David Middleton, Palm Desert

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To the editor: Even with his name recognition, Garvey must have realized from the start that he was doomed to lose the Senate race.

As a center-right voter, I did not vote for him in the primaries because I knew he had no chance of winning. Instead, I voted for Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine), a left-wing ideologue, but at least she wasn’t Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank).

Our next senator lied to the country when he said he had information about then-President Trump during the Russia investigation — even when it appears he didn’t.

I’m mad at Garvey for walking away, because at least Porter would have had a chance to beat Schiff.

Mark Walker, Yorba Linda