20 May,
2017
Rep. Dana
Rohrabacher,
101 Main
Street #380
Huntington
Beach, CA 92648
Dear
Congressman,
Re: NYT
Article
I noted
the article in yesterday’s New York Times that featured you—presumably in
consequence of the airing of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s comment
that you, along with Trump, were in Putin’s pay.
I do take
that particular remark with a pinch of salt, but the article reminds us of your
enthusiasm for Russia and your vocal opposition to the sanctions imposed
following the Ukraine invasion. It also reports on a confidential 2012 meeting
in which intelligence officials felt it necessary to warn you of Russian
attempts to recruit you as an “agent of influence.” They must have concluded
that you were receptive.
The
article also quoted you as saying, in response to a NYT question: “I can’t
imagine someone in a position of power in the United States government not
fully appreciating the fact that whoever he’s dealing with who’s a foreigner
that he doesn’t know he’s trying to influence him.” Does this rather convoluted
response not overlook the very recent history of your president’s widely
publicized meeting with the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador
in the Oval Office? A meeting in which he disgraced himself by sharing
classified information and boasted of his firing of the FBI Director to relieve
himself of the pressure of investigation?
And you
continue to support this man? As a resident in your district, I was pleased to
read in the same article that you are “already facing what is shaping up to be
the most difficult campaign” of your “28-year career in Congress.” It is,
reportedly, “a race some of [your] colleagues would rather not see [you] run,
given how much money the party may have to spend” on your behalf. Given your
continuing unquestioning support not only of Trump but also of a Republican
agenda that spells disaster for the American middle- and working classes, I
have to say that I will be actively working so support a Democratic contender
for your seat in the House of Representatives.
Respectfully,
Peter Clothier, Ph.D.
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