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Called both Senators and my Congressman
Nov. 29th, 2016 05:06 pmAccountability post Trump Year 0 November 29
Called both my senators. The young man who answered the phone at Senator Corker's office was very polite and seemed to really care about my concerns. I didn't *quite* break down as I summed everything up (appointment of white supremacists, threats to prosecute Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Education who wants to divert public funds from public schools to private schools that are free to discriminate against minority students, Trump's false claim that the popular vote was tipped against him by illegal votes, Trump's recent threats against free speech) and said that this wasn't normal and it wasn't okay. But my voice was starting to tremble.
I heard him sniffing on the other end of the line. It is possible he just had allergies but I had the impression he was moved by what I had to say. He actually took the time to ask me if I had any other concerns so I shared my worry about Standing Rock and pointed out that the pipeline poisoning the water supply was a concern when it ran north of Bismarck so you can't reasonably say it's not a concern on Native American lands.
He said that I wasn't alone in my concerns and they had been getting a lot of calls about all these things, which made me feel a bit better.
I had to call Senator Alexander's office five times before I reached a person and not an answering machine. The person who answered was polite enough but seemed detached. They promised to forward my concerns to Senator Alexander.
The person at Congressman Duncan's office was... let's just say was plainly in a hurry and trying to cut my call as short as possible. I did manage to register that I wanted an inquiry into Trump's financial conflicts of interest (she completed the sentence for me as soon as I said "House Oversight Committee") before she hurried me off the phone. Hopefully she was in a hurry because they are getting a mountain of phone calls about this.
In other news, Yonder and Back is going to perform on Saturday at a place called The Bunkhouse, so today at Library Music we picked out one song each and one backup song each. For my songs I picked Oblivion Bridge and Wagon Wheel. I wanted to do at least one that I had written because the Bunkhouse kind of speciallizes in singer-songwriters, and I don't have the heart to do The Golden Door right now, and Oblivion Bridge is at least one that I've *introduced* to the group. And Wagon Wheel is a cover but everybody knows it pretty well and it's reasonably bouncy.
Called both my senators. The young man who answered the phone at Senator Corker's office was very polite and seemed to really care about my concerns. I didn't *quite* break down as I summed everything up (appointment of white supremacists, threats to prosecute Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Education who wants to divert public funds from public schools to private schools that are free to discriminate against minority students, Trump's false claim that the popular vote was tipped against him by illegal votes, Trump's recent threats against free speech) and said that this wasn't normal and it wasn't okay. But my voice was starting to tremble.
I heard him sniffing on the other end of the line. It is possible he just had allergies but I had the impression he was moved by what I had to say. He actually took the time to ask me if I had any other concerns so I shared my worry about Standing Rock and pointed out that the pipeline poisoning the water supply was a concern when it ran north of Bismarck so you can't reasonably say it's not a concern on Native American lands.
He said that I wasn't alone in my concerns and they had been getting a lot of calls about all these things, which made me feel a bit better.
I had to call Senator Alexander's office five times before I reached a person and not an answering machine. The person who answered was polite enough but seemed detached. They promised to forward my concerns to Senator Alexander.
The person at Congressman Duncan's office was... let's just say was plainly in a hurry and trying to cut my call as short as possible. I did manage to register that I wanted an inquiry into Trump's financial conflicts of interest (she completed the sentence for me as soon as I said "House Oversight Committee") before she hurried me off the phone. Hopefully she was in a hurry because they are getting a mountain of phone calls about this.
In other news, Yonder and Back is going to perform on Saturday at a place called The Bunkhouse, so today at Library Music we picked out one song each and one backup song each. For my songs I picked Oblivion Bridge and Wagon Wheel. I wanted to do at least one that I had written because the Bunkhouse kind of speciallizes in singer-songwriters, and I don't have the heart to do The Golden Door right now, and Oblivion Bridge is at least one that I've *introduced* to the group. And Wagon Wheel is a cover but everybody knows it pretty well and it's reasonably bouncy.
