I seriously never wanted to be one of those transplants who moves someplace and tries to make it like someplace else (and I certainly don’t want to see more of California in these mountains); but I’m having issues with politics as usual in North Carolina. I’m talking about redistricting in this instance*; plucking the largest city in Western North Carolina out of Western North Carolina (the NC-11th District) and dropping it into the heavily Republican 10th Congressional District.
I’ve had my differences of opinion with Heath Shuler. I probably wouldn’t like him personally, and I’ve certainly disagreed with some of his votes in the House. I wish he didn’t spend weeknights and eat breakfast in the C Street Center, but I respect that he comes home on weekends . I also respect that he/his staff responds to my e-mails with reasoned on-point responses.
Now I’m going to be “represented” by Patrick McHenry from over by Charlotte who has been a Republican Party hack ever since he graduated from that little fundamentalist liberal arts college a few years ago. His official biography boasts that he shares the most conservative record in Congress on family values, and that he’s a “Hero of the Taxpayer” according to Americans for Tax Reform. That’s not who I am.
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Okay, here’s what I’m thinking: I’ll give it until after the 2012 elections. I’ll continue to make a good faith effort here, but if this is how it’s going to be in spite of that… I can’t tell my grandson that Patrick McHenry represents me.
*I might have talked about the new 24-hour waiting period and counseling requirement before terminating a pregnancy, but I didn’t.
I feel your pain. I have an idiot for my Congress Critter, too! He still hasn’t responded to my asking him to lend me the money I need to pay my bills because he and his fellow freshmen are holding my Social Security benefits hostage!