A Letter from my Congressman

live in a Gerrymandered Congressional district. This is a Republican dominated district that has close to 90% registered republicans. In many elections the democrats don’t even bother to run a candidate. Our Representative is Garry Miller. He used to be on my residential city council and found a way to run for congress when our last republican congressman was guilty of accepting illegal campaign contributions leaving this sure republican district open to a new congressman. He’ll probably keep this job no matter what anybody in his district fells or says until 2012 when the district will reapportioned under a new system that’s suppose to end gerrymandering in California. I hope it works.

I tell you this information so that you can understand my frustrations over voicing my opinion to my congressman. It true I can voice it, but he will never take me serious because he only has to satisfy of part of the constituency. I wrote him and email asking for some cooperation when it came to the budget and the recovery act. And that he actually consider the bill before voting against them and not just vote as a republican but as a representative of our district.

I received an answer that was as frustrating as any answer I had ever read. It made me wonder as to the intelligence of this district I live in when this congressman can send me a letter so insulting of my intelligence and think its acceptable. He told me he voted against the 700-dollar plus bill because of three provisions that constituted less than 2% of the whole bill. The issues he chose to tell me about were probably among the most innocuous of all the provision in the bill. He didn’t like that one billion dollars were going to be dedicated to Wellness and disease prevention. He also wanted found that $335 million to help prevent sexually transmitted diseases and sexual education wanting even though we have a higher teen pregnancy rate than India. He also objected to $50 billion on art. He complains that these spending plans wouldn’t create one job. I don’t know but I think people have to be hired to deliver all these services. Lastly he told me that he supported his party’s stimulus package but he never told me of one provision in that bill and when I researched this bill I couldn’t find it.

We have to do something to get rid of these kinds of representatives. Gerrymandering is the most anti democratic institution in our country. Please hurry 20012.