Your story speaks volumes, but so does this record: Jim Moran is now in his 20th year in Congress. Northern Virginia (government bureaucracy dependent to the core) keeps returning him to the House election after election.
Look up “term limits” in your dictionary and Jim Moran’s mug should be one of the pictures featured.
Supposedly, there are 80,000 government workers registered to vote in that district so all a creep like Moran has to do is keep bringing home the pork and vote for ever-expanding government.
Regrettably, I live in Moran’s district that is classically gerrymandered to include all the most liberal precincts in Northern VA.
After this episode, and a few others, like his domestic issues, where I believe he treated his wife like this kid, and some other issues relating to favorable financing from a company upon whose legislation he was soon to vote, Moran drew a credible challenger in the Dem primary. IIRC, it was close, but Moran won and no has successfully taken him on ever since.
Moran also managed to get his brother elected Mayor of Alexandria (a post I believe he held) and then a state legislator, and to run (unsuccessfully) for the Dem nomination for governor of VA. All this with a heavy Boston accent while they made fun of a GOP gubernatorial candidate who had a SW VA accent. The man is total slime. They should send him back to Boston.