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Post by minx on Dec 19, 2023 15:53:33 GMT -5
As you know, I am beyond pissed at this stadium deal to move the Wizards and Caps. And I wrote Youngkin, Tara Durant and Joshua Cole (my three esteemed state representatives) to voice my concerns. I sent each the same email.
Youngkin - crickets (his office did acknowledge receiving my request) Durant - crickets (not acknowledgement of even receiving anything) Cole - office first thanked me for contacting them and said they would get back to me. Today I received an email thanking me for voicing my concerns and saying that Cole would most definitely be voting against the stadium funding.
Holy Crap! A politician who not only responds to you, but actually tells you what their vote will be. It's a fricken Christmas miracle for sure!
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Dec 19, 2023 16:40:51 GMT -5
Conservatives- Taxation is theft- Using tax revenues to enrich billionaires and politicians- fiscally responsible.
It's the same. Old song. With a different meaning Since the right is wrong.
The democrat was the only one that responded...... and with an actual response. But if we're being honest with ourselves, writing Youngkin and the other schmuck was a waste of electrons since one is attached to the other's hip and that hip is the one with the poc
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Post by minx on Dec 20, 2023 11:44:44 GMT -5
Yeah, but I want to have all bases covered
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Dec 20, 2023 12:22:31 GMT -5
Understandable. Unfortunately, our Republican representatives have a real hard time with anything other than canned responses. Rob Witless is the worst in that regard and rarely if ever do you hear them doing town hall meetings. Even if they did, I'd bet a crisp five dollar bill that the answers would be the same as the ones on the emails, word for word. That's why I won't bother wasting my time with them anymore. That being said, I will pick up the phone and let them hear about it when I need to be heard and they are the ones supposed to be representing me regardless of my political donations or lack thereof.
John Warner was the last Republican representative I ever got an actual response from, in writing, and actually took action on my concern while the others didn't even bother responding. He got my vote every time he ran after that, being that his action made Anthem reverse their "pre-existing condition" refusal of coverage for her, and had to pay retroactive to the diagnoses.
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Post by minx on Dec 20, 2023 13:28:53 GMT -5
I was pretty shocked to get an actual response at all.
OTOH, I did meet Cole at a campaign event once, and he did take a great deal of time to discuss and explain school funding - how it currently is working, along with what changes he wanted to propose to the formulas. And he was very upfront and honest about saying that there wasn't much of a change of things changing because wealthier jurisdictions (including Stafford) would protest sending money to poorer ones to even things out.
I appreciated him both taking the time and being realistic about changing things - his promise was to try, but he didn't promise to change things. Again, rather refreshing.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Dec 20, 2023 16:08:09 GMT -5
Lip service is still service I guess.
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Post by minx on Dec 20, 2023 17:26:54 GMT -5
Still better than my dearly departed BOS member who always said that he was 'working on it', but never introduced anything or got anything done. Oh yeah, he was totally anti-development. Yet he voted for all sorts of development shit. But he was working on it...
Cole was honest enough to say that he wanted to see things change and explain the process while also saying not to hold your breath cause there were larger fish to fry.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Dec 20, 2023 18:42:46 GMT -5
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Post by minx on Dec 21, 2023 11:10:08 GMT -5
I do not need that feeling thankyouverymuch!
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Dec 21, 2023 12:03:34 GMT -5
It was funny to me because the topic here reminded me of the one time Brat decided to have a town hall and even his own supporters turned against him for being completely deaf to their issues. He went into hiding after that and Spanberger beat him handily in the next election.
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Post by minx on Dec 22, 2023 9:50:49 GMT -5
The only thing Brat was good for was taking Eric Cantor out of play.
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