18 April
2017
Rep. Dana
Rohrabacher,
101 Main
Street #380
Huntington
Beach, CA 92648
Dear
Congressman,
Re: My
letters, your “responses.”
I don’t
suppose you’ll have been spending much time over the spring congressional break
wondering why you have heard nothing from me—but let me tell you anyway: chalk it
up to family values. My daughter and our five-year-old grandson spent the long
weekend with us at our Laguna Beach cottage. As a father yourself, you can
imagine that it was a busy, sometimes noisy time.
Not incidentally,
though, I do wonder what happens to my letters. Do any of them ever reach your
eyes? I’m guessing that they get no further than a staffer, who at best glances
through the content, highlights its subject matter, and passes on a report on
“mail received” to you. At best. I received no answer to my (perhaps impertinent!)
suggestion for a personal, one-on-one meeting, failing a Town Hall meeting open
to all of your constituents. (By the way, I note that your Republican
colleagues have been having a good deal of trouble with theirs—and, to my mind,
deservedly so: you surely won’t argue with my contention that your party has
been doing a terrible job of governing.)
Regarding
responses, though: I have received three thus far from your office, each one of
them a boilerplate. Truthfully, I have expected nothing more. I write these
letters more for public posting than with the expectation that you will read
them, respond, or—least of all!—change your mind. They appear not only on
Facebook, now, but also on my new blog, The Rohrabacher Letters, where I’m
working to build a readership.
That’s
all for today. Thanks for reading—if you do. It would be good to hear from you.
Respectfully,
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