October 27, 2017
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 48th 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.
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