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.
It’s as simple as this: I don’t look at politics as something that can save us. HOWEVER, I do realize that it can destroy us.
Thus the logical snafu that many on FR make when they refuse to vote for “the lesser of two evils” - because almost all of them are the folks who also warn us that “politics cannot save us” - is that of course politics is the lesser of two evils by definition. That’s why it cannot save us, but why it certainly CAN destroy us.
I don’t like lesser of two evils...but if the lesser of two evils does not destroy us, or gives us more time to prepare while it does destroy us, then it is still the proper stewardship of a vote by any Biblical definition or secular logical one.
You are creating BS straw men. I see very few, if ANY, sites that say R no matter what. They may say NO D’s no matter what, but as I say, growed up folks know there’s a difference.
And the same growed up folks who must know right from wrong, are ALSO CALLED TO KNOW MORE WRONG FROM LESS WRONG.
GAME SET MATCH DUDE.
It's actually far worse than that, as you shall see.........
Theres your problem right there. You ignore the destruction going on daily perped by the very lesser evils you are willing to elect more of.
See Bhomer/Lindsay/McColnell for further details.
Once you equate their actions to the problems that result from them, Stevie Wonder could see it at 1000 yards.
You made it 3 weeks silently. Don’t stop now.
Gnight Charles. You make up excuses as usual.
It was a step backwards when we went to two letter abbreviations. I still like Tenn. and Penn. (or Penna) And Ala. and Ark. and Miss. Less confusion.
Here are some talking points to bring up at your next Town Hall Meeting, phone call, letter, or e-mail:
1.) If we stop donating to the RINOs, then we just MIGHT have a chance that they will actually change their anti-Conservative actions.
Remember, in politics, “Lack of Money speaks louder than words.”
2.) If teeth are lacking in the US Constitution for swift and effective punishment of Constitution violators, then it really is time to SHUT DOWN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
3.) What more will it take for Articles of Impeachment to be issued for B. Hussein Obama?
4.) When can we expect to read that you have resigned from Congress?
I love it when one of the biggest liars on the forum talks about being principled......
Have a nice day Norm. Nuff said.
Dont put yourself down Yosemite. We still wuvs you.
$174,000 is nothing compared to the ‘contributions’ received and the fees for ‘speaking engagements’.
Look at any notable politician and see they started from essentially nothing and 10 years later they are worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.
Most of us were NOT voting for Romney, per se; we were voting for the only candidate who had any chance getting Comrade Obama out of office.
Does it matter? The end result was the GOP saw what they could get away with and ran hard to the left.
Voting for lesser evil is not a pain free proposition. Evil always carries a price. And if people do it again, they deserve the hell they cause because the prof of their mistake is shown above.
Watching you speak about having principles is like watching Clinton talk about not having sex.
See ya later Norm, can't wait to see what evasions and lies you cook up down the road.
Whatever.
Give them the Al Sharpton treatment, go to their local office with a bull horn and hold your side of the meeting! Of course first call the press to cover.........
Too bad there’s not an IQ test for being on FR.....methinks NL would be zotted....he’s really angry and self righteous, and just not that smart frankly. Totally incapable of processing a logical point.
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