Posted on 08/16/2013 5:44:13 AM PDT by cotton1706
In a New York Times piece about the frustrations of one citizen activist in Texas, some prominent Republicans who have not held an August town hall are listed. They include: Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL); Rep. Tim Griffin (R-AK); Rep. John Kline (R-MN); Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX); Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), the chair of the House Rules Committee; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who has “not announced any town halls but did participate in them in 2009.”
The Times profiled Katrina Pierson, a fierce Tea Party activist from the Dallas, Texas area who traveled across the state for Ted Cruz in 2012. She and Tea Party activists in Dallas have made fake milk cartons with the faces of Cornyn and Sessions on them to urge both to meet their constituents at least once.
Pierson, a Sessions constituent, told Breitbart News that constituents in the district plan on doing robo-calls to put pressure on him to hold a town hall. She said that “Texans are tired of the failed leadership delegation in our state” and asserted that the state elected Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “to lead the fight against an abusive and intrusive federal government. “
“Senator John Cornyn and Congressman Pete Sessions have spent decades in office allowing this out of control spending, the dismantling of the constitution, and a runaway bureaucracy,” she told Breitbart News. “They have been complicit in the erosion of our rights and free market opportunities for tax payers in this country. We have paid them millions of dollars in salary to represent special interests, and we demand face-to-face answers.”
Pierson and her follow activists have organized a town hall on Saturday for Cornyn and have invited him to attend.
“As you may know, we the people of Texas pay Senator John Cornyn a salary of $174,000.00 per year. Over the course of a six-year term, that’s over a million dollars,” a flyer advertising the town hall reads. “Given that we pay the man much more than most of us make, it’s understandable that we would expect that Senator Cornyn would be so kind as to make himself available to us on a periodic basis, to discuss the critical issues facing our Republic and how he plans to address them. Apparently, Senator Cornyn disagrees.”
Pierson has offered to host a town hall for Sessions as well, and she indicated her frustrations with elected Representatives in Washington are similar to those of constituents in other districts who feel lawmakers are becoming more removed from everyday Americans they purport to represent.
Hopefully Rand and Cruz will use this opportunity to show that they AREN’T afraid of the people they serve.
Because they know they no longer represent their constituents. The GOP is relying on blind brand loyalty.
The people should go to the town halls, and have their say on the steps in front. That should get some attention, and have their words heard!
no, they’re relying on folks hating the other brand even more.....
Safe bet for them. Many of the people who voted for Romney will run right out and vote R no matter how bad they are screwed by them. the threads last 2 nights back clarified that.
The Republicans who are hiding from the people they are supposed to represent are cowards. Every one of them should be replaced in next year’s primaries, or in the case of senators, the next time they run. They are not worth of leadership.
Republican = Whig
Buh bye.
I’m reminded of the planet ruled by lizards in one of the Hitchhiker’s guide books.
I no longer vote for Lizards.
But I suggest that your understanding of the voters’ motivation is simply not correct. I don’t think many people are blindly voting R thinking that doing so is a good thing. I think the vast majority of people who vote R live in mortal fear of the D’s - while having no delusions whatsoever.
People around FR often poo poo the idea of “lesser of two evils” - but this is a damned important concept, albeit an unhappy one. The opposite of the lesser of two evils is the GREATER of two evils, and if you vote for the greater of two evils (including not voting) - then you get to live with the greater of two evils.
Very frustrating and unhappy reality. But, um, REALITY nonetheless.
agreed!!!
I had a real problem with the “becoming more removed” part of the article. These people have become so far removed from most of us, we might as well live in different countries. We certainly do inhabit different cultures.
Whatever gets set up to replace this should have a lifetime limit of 10 years in a government job, whether it is elected office or city dog-catcher.
I like Sessions. He has been outspoken against the immigration bill.
I like Sessions. He has been outspoken against the immigration bill.
Katrina is awesome. Proud to know her, look forward to the townhall this saturday.
Lets diss Obama, lets diss Pelosi, lets diss Reid, lets diss Hillary Clinton and then lets go ahead and do the same things they do.
That’s how the GOPe machine uses us by manipulating our emotions to win elections so they can go ahead and do the things they claim to be against.
I’m not swallowing their stuff anymore.
Part of the reason for needing TERM LIMITS and a complete restructuring of congressional perks.
Charles, A person acting on principle cannot by definition embrace evils, lesser or greater. Unless those principles are themselves evil.
REALITY is what you see around you. Lesser evils elected by scared voters who have gone out of their way to make America far worse off than it as in the past. The more lesser evil they embraced, the worse it has gotten. That is a documented reality.
We are years out from 16 and have lots of time till 14. Why is it that at this stage of the game, soooo many people are already gearing up to embrace yet more evil? Because that’s what those people are. If they have not yet learned the lessons of their mistakes, they are the problem. And their votes will infuse yet more evil into the so called opposition party.
Simple math shows you do not subtract via addition.
You are hyperconflating many disjointed ideas. I don’t see anyone settling for lesser evils now...I see challenges to Mitch and Lindsey gearing up hard, I see Marco’s career dying on the vine...I see a lot of exactly what should be going on at this phase. And you won’t see me even entertaining talk of 16 yet. Only those who are lo fos and obsessed with people (who is Prez) are talking about that.
Thinking people know that right now, the focus is PRIMARYS for 2014.
Obviously, or it should have been obvious, that I was referring to the unhappy decisions we often have to make at general election time. Dont’ bore me with your sappy esoteric “embrace evil” flapdoodle. Embracing hasn’t anything to do with it.
Growed up folks make growed up decisions....because growed up folks understand it has nothing to do with them...that’s not what a vote is about.
That is, unless you are on the ballot.
Growed up folks know the difference between right and wrong. A 5 yo knows after licking the frozen flagpole once that twice is a very bad idea.
I am going by my daily reading of the most conservative of websites wherein GOP sycophants rehash endlessly the mantra that we MUST vote R no matter what. 2 nights back I was in three separate swampfests on it alone. So it is quite apparent to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention that SOMEONE seems to be paving the way to ease those troubled conservative consciences into voting RINO again pretty early.
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