Mailbag: Rohrabacher should represent more than Tea Party
Dana Rohrabacher has been around way too long. It troubles me that he keeps getting re-elected to my congressional district. He is a Republican representative who distinguishes himself more by demagoguery than accomplishment.
But you be the judge.
This is a four minute snippet of one of the incendiary speeches Rohrabacher has blessed us with during some 26 years as our representative for the 48th Congressional District. This speech was presented to a select audience of Newport Mesa Tea Party members.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Dqi5tX-SY
His penchant for hot-button issues and abrasive statements — global warming is a “total fraud”; the National Security Agency violates your privacy; big government is out to get you; be afraid of radical Islam; and Obamacare takes away your rights — appeal to conservatives and hide his lack of legislative accomplishments, not to mention oratorical skills.
We need someone to represent the interests of all residents of the district, not just Tea Partiers.
One hundred and thirty cheering Tea Party advocates packed the Halecrest Park Swim and Tennis Club to hear Rohrabacher in the above video clip.
How many of his estimated 712,000 constituents does Rohrabacher really represent?
Jim Hoover
Huntington Beach
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Time to Go
It’s the city
In which I live
Where people take
But they also give
It breaks our hearts
When a melee starts
A riot in the street
Can only defeat
Our municipal goal
Of a town that’s whole
For everyone
From a daughter to a son
It’s a berg by the sea
For you and me
Old folks
Young folks
All are fine
But if you break the law
You’ll do some time
In our city jail
You can post the bail
But you end up there
You know you’ve failed
So come on down
Have some fun
But when the law shows up
It’s time to run
To Riverside
Eastward ho
If you can’t behave
It’s time to go
Ben Miles
Huntington Beach
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Non-expert climate change debate is pointless
The challenge Congressman Dana Rohrabacher made to Sen. Barbara Boxer is ridiculous.
Two non-scientist politicians debating climate change research is arrogant and silly, little more than a stunt. No one learns anything except that one debater is better at bluster and sophistry, perhaps, but not the facts.
Second-, third-, and fourth-hand “knowledge” hardly makes the congressman or the senator experts.
What if C-SPAN staged a two day debate for the world to watch. Rohrabacher picks his expert scientists, Boxer picks hers. Each side is given time to present its research and evidence. Each side is given the opportunity to question the other. Then we all might learn something.
Jim Lammers
San Anselmo, Calif.
His penchant for hot-
button issues and abra
sive statements — global
warming is a “total fraud”;
the National Security
Agency violates your pri-
vacy; big government is
out to get you; be afraid of
radical Islam; and Oba
macare takes away your
rights — appeals to con
servatives and hides his
lack of legislative accom-
plishments, not to men
tion oratorical skills.
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