RIGHT FOR OC?

October 27, 2017

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Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,

101 Main Street #380

Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Dear Congressman,

Re: Right for OC?

Well, well! A big piece on the Los Angeles Times op-ed page yesterday—with a huge picture, no less! It does not criticize you quite so much for the reasons for which I hold you accountable—your far-right wing, libertarian positions—but rather for betraying the Reagan heritage by aligning yourself with Donald Trump. (By the way, I don’t like that way you refer to your constituents, rather dismissively, as “these people” and assert that they’ll never vote for a Democrat.)

The column suggests that your Achilles heel, as a candidate in next year’s election, may turn out to be your misguided obsession with Russia, your enthusiasm for the brutal dictator, Vladimir Putin, and your continuing efforts to exculpate him from interference in our 2016 presidential campaign. Yet you have been thwarted on every front: Gen. Kelly has been refusing you access to Trump, with the supposedly irrefutable proof you brought home with you from your meeting with that most reliable of sources, Julian Assange; and now, I read, by your own party, which is monitoring the activity of your subcommittee of the House Intelligence committee lest it get out of hand with pro-Russia conspiracy theories.

Meanwhile, as the op-ed piece points out, the priorities of the 48^th district differ starkly from your own. On the one hand, former Reagan Republicans are repelled by Donald Trump: many of them voted for Hillary in 2016. On the other, a growing population of immigrants—from the Far East as well as Mexico and Latin America—is increasingly alienated from the Republican party by its cruel and intransigent policies on immigration.

Turn your eyes from Russia, Congressman! Your constituents demand attention to issues more meaningful to themselves.

Respectfully,

Peter Clothier, Ph.D.