Jeff McWaters: 100 Percent Political Hack
In so much as Jeff McWaters is now my State Senator, I crossed my fingers in hopes that once elected, a true legislative representative would emerge – that underneath all the campaign crap was a thoughtful, considerate, responsible Virginian with the ambition of doing due diligence in service to all his constituents.
Nope. What was elected on Tuesday January 12 was not a statesman who would put aside most of the hyper-partisan campaign wrangling, seeking first to educate himself on the issues, holding close the best interest of all persons great and small that he now represents, and giving to fair and thoughtful consideration to all sides of an issue.
Nope. What got elected to represent us in the 8th district for the next four years is a 100% political hack.
These were McWater’s most disgraceful words last night as part of the Senate GOP response to Governor Kaine’s final speech before the General Assembly:
“With the assault on business from Washington in the form of Obamacare, card check and cap and trade, Virginia’s business-friendly policies will be even more important as a last line of defense.”
Gosh, Jeff. I’m surprised you forgot the required GOP mention of “death panels”.
So someone explain to me how I’m supposed to go to my State Senator with my concerns for global warming pollution and holding polluters responsible for their contributions to it. He has already written that concern off as an “assault on business”. I’m doomed before even opening my mouth to speak assuming I even get as far as actually having an appointment to meet.
I’ve had pretty much only Republicans representing me since May 1985 (Bill Mims, Joe May, Russ Potts, Terrie Suit, Ken Stolle, and Barry Knight). They very often voted straight “R” which was often contrary to what I wanted. But if I got to them before the fact, they at least pretended to be interested in hearing my side of the argument. And if I got to them after the contrary vote, they appeared honest in their attempt to explain their reasoning. It was bogus most of the time but it was sincere and they went to bed at night at least knowing one little constituent of theirs was watching and wasn’t happy.
But with Jeff McWaters, I’ll get the “take a hike, treehugger and don’t come back. I don’t have time for your nonsense as I’ve got fat cats to serve”.
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January 15th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
I’d suggest supporting a candidate to run against him who is a moderate and who might be open to hearing your opinion even if you do not always convince him/her. You might see a closer election or even a real chance at victory (ever heard of that guy by the name of Glenn Nye?).
But are you the type that looks at the glass half full or the type that looks at it half empty? You can look at it either way when you have a moderate representing you.