COMMUNICATIONS

April 10, 2018

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,

101 Main Street #380

Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Dear Congressman,

Re: Communications

There’s a reason I write to you so much about Trump and your fellow Republicans rather than about your own congressional activities: it’s hard to find any real information about what you actually do.

My main (but not exclusive) media sources are the New York Times, The Guardian, The Hill, and social media outlets which I treat with appropriate suspicion. But mostly I run searches for you online: your Twitter feed, your press releases, your articles and opinion pieces—though these are few. Your website, I have to say, is a real anachronism—poorly designed, with very little information, most of which is well past its sell-by date. There’s no updating. You link to your blog, in which I see no entries since February 26, 2016! And so on. Am I missing something? Is there some place I can follow what you’re doing for your constituents in Washington on a day-to-day basis? Where I can find your opinions on issues of current importance?

I say this because I think it is one of the important duties of a Congressperson, to be actively involved in the issues of the day and to communicate on a consistent basis with the people he or she represents. I search, but I find no real effort on your part to keep us abreast of your activities. You must, I presume, have at least one media consultant on your staff—who is, to be honest, not doing a good job, unless it be to obfuscate and dissemble.

Particularly at this moment, with the November election looming, we constituents need to be informed about your representation of our interests. If I’m missing something, I’d appreciate it if you’d point me in the right direction. (I mean, of course, right as in right-hand, left-hand…) This is, by the way, the 255^th letter I’ve written to you. Still no response. Another communications lapse?

Respectfully,

Peter Clothier, Ph.D.