Senator Cory Gardner has continued to insist that “paid protesters” have been calling his offices, making it difficult for his own “real” constituents from Colorado to get through to him.
That is a rather lame excuse for being unwilling to actually listen to them.
It would behoove Senator Gardner to understand that literally hundreds of real Coloradans, just from one little pocket of southern Colorado, have reported that their calls were unanswered and his voicemail remained full after they had given up calling his Washington office repeatedly.
We now feel relegated to calling all his satellite offices in order to be heard. That is also why we in the San Luis Valley are urging him to hold a town hall here.
That way, he can explain in person why he and his colleagues are supporting cabinet appointees that are either blatantly unqualified billionaires (Betsy deVos) or hard-right ideologues out to gut the environmental protections we value here (Scott Pruitt at the EPA) or Medicare as we know it (Tom Price for Health and Human Services), just to name a few among a woeful lot.
We would also like him to explain how he and his colleagues will justify their intentions to eliminate financial regulations that were designed to protect our economy from the excesses of Wall Street, and why he doesn’t share our concerns about President Trump’s overarching conflicts of interest, the politicization of Voice of America and the National Security Council, and so on....
But surely he gets the picture.
Susannah Ortego
Crestone
