A vote of ‘no’ in the Congress. A denial of a ride in Air Force One to change my mind. A black eye for Rahm Emmanuel when he comes to change my mind. As a Congressman, I have a voice and a vote, and I don’t sell them to anybody or give them away. MY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE 51st DISTRICT, IF THEY GIVE ME THE PRIVILEGE OF REPRESENTING THEM AND TO ALL AMERICANS.
I respect your attitude toward being a representative. I often wonder about what it requires to maintain that attitude once someone is elected and gets to Washington. You know how many go to D.C. with strong principles and either quit in utter frustration- or get sucked up in the culture.
I’m sure you’ve thought about this- do you have ideas about how to avoid those alternatives?
Welcome to FR- I live in Florida- but support conservatives everywhere they pop up!
Thank you for serving us all.
As an old warfighter, how would you wage political war against a government healthcare takeover beyond your vote in congress? In other words, how would you LEAD and where would you lead to?
“A black eye for Rahm Emmanuel when he comes to change my mind.”
Sweet!!! LOL, I’d pay to see that!
Prayers and support are behind you in this race. If we had more men like yourself in leadership our nation wouldn't be headed down the hole it's headed in.
I thought this quote was appropriate for where you're headed after your win. (Win!)
"Don't you forget that you're First Marines! Not all the communists in Hell can overrun you!"
~Col. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC rallying his First Marine Regiment near Chosin Reservoir, Korea, December 1950
Current, and aspiring, elected officials on the Right are pressed hard on the issue of illegal immigration. I've read you remarks submitted earlier yet would like to focus not on deterring future illegals but what is to be done about the millions already here, some for many, many years. For these people, do you see a 'path to citizenship' as viable if not practicable? How would you respond to those insisting that those here now illegally be found and deported back to their country of origin?
You've stated that existing laws are adequate, if not (always) implemented. How would you work to stop individuals or companies from employing illegals?
Do you, or not, believe that the United States has an obligation to turn nations (more) democratic? Are we obliged to export our 'way of life' to countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, especially at exorbitant costs to U.S. taxpayers?
Would you propose or support a revision of our system of taxation?
Would you propose or support a Constitutional amendment that eliminates and disallows any taxes on property, in particularly 'land'?
I've recently ceased all donations to politicians or political aspirants, (a/c their wont to mislead). I'm in Virginia but I will though be posting a check to your campaign tomorrow morn. You, and those like yourself, have earned and deserve the benefit of doubt.
After you're elected and settled down in D.C., please drive the one hundred miles, or so, to Monticello. It is glaringly obvious that too many now occupying seats, or taking up space, in our nation's Capitol have not the slightest inkling of what Thomas Jefferson stood for nor what he, et al, envisioned for America.