About two weeks ago I wrote to Senator Pat Toomey asking him to intervene to halt the practice of separating young children from their parents who were seeking asylum. These separations were sometimes for months. This is an incredibly cruel policy unworthy of this nation and its ideals.
Today I received a reply. The reply was over a page long, and made me think that if you can’t convince them with truth, overwhelm them with bullshit. Almost the entire letter was about DACA issues, although it included self-praise for Toomey’s efforts to reform immigration and a gratuitous attack on sanctuary cities. There was nothing about children being separated from their parents.
I was a Field Representative for State Senator Jerry Smith in California. I know how it works. We had a template to help us answer different constituent letters. For example, we had a tax letter template or an abortion letter template. What we did not do was simply reprint the same letter. Each letter was individualized to address the constituent’s specific concerns.
Before you say but wasn’t a state senator’s district much smaller than Pennsylvania, I’ll point out that first, a California State Senate district is larger than a U.S. Congressional district, and second, a U.S. Senator has a huge staff compared to state senators and representatives.
What this tells me is that Senator Toomey and his staff do not give a moment’s thought to people Toomey disagrees with. Well, maybe he does if they give him large campaign contributions.
Kind of like the contributions that AT&T, Novartis and the Russian oligarch have given to Michael Cohen. Then again, maybe the money was just being funneled to someone higher up.
ReplyDeleteHard to tell with this administration up to its armpits in the swamp.
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