Open letter to Rep. Marcy Kaptur
Written by Thomas Berry | | opinion@toledofreep.comDear Ms. Kaptur,
On Aug. 9, Toledo Free Press published an open letter that we, as a body of conservative constituents, wrote to you. In that letter, we expressed our concerns about your actions and voting record, and how they affect us as your constituents. We also requested a meeting with you in order to discuss these concerns.
Specifically, we identified the following issues on which you have acted at odds with the best interests of your district:
- Failure to honestly debate issues;
- Voting for legislation without personally reading and understanding it;
- Voting in favor of trillions of dollars in new federal deficits;
- Accepting the presence of “czars” in the Executive Branch;
- Voting for government ownership of U.S. corporations;
- Voting for “Cap and Trade” legislation; and,
- Support for health care reform that threatens liberties.
We stand by these grievances and maintain that your district deserves better representation than you are providing. You have not honestly discussed the issues with us. You have ignored our open invitation for you to contact us or appear at one of our meetings, and your only “public” meeting during the August recess was by phone, by invitation, with only pre-approved questions allowed. You do not reply to communications you invite from us and you ignore our wishes and comments. Your district deserves better than this.
You have not consistently demonstrated satisfactory knowledge of the issues. Following Sept. 11, you likened al-Qaida terrorists to the Green Mountain Boys, heroes of the American Revolution. You support Cap and Trade, even though the “science” behind it is demonstrably fraudulent and will cause severe economic harm to your district because of our reliance on coal-fired power plants. Your district deserves better than this.
You have failed to act in our best interests. You evidently believe that you know better than us what is best for us, yet you have voted for legislation that is harmful to us. Your votes for increased government spending burden us, and our children, with insurmountable debt, onerous taxation and continued high unemployment. Your vote for health care reform will impose further costs and taxes on us in addition to the economic hardships your other votes are exacerbating, while compromising our health care and our liberty. Your district deserves better than this.
You have not opposed unconstitutional practices, including: Government control of private enterprise and private salaries; appointment of “czars” who are unaccountable to Congress or the public; and, health care reform that is not provided for in the constitution and that violates provisions of the 4th, 5th, 9th and 10th Amendments. Your district deserves better than this.
You have not spoken out against the president’s radical leftist appointees, such as White House Communications Director Anita Dunn — an open admirer of Mao Zedong, under whose tyrannical regime a nation was impoverished and tens of millions were slaughtered. Your district deserves better than this.
You have not defended those who uphold the U.S. Constitution against these threats. When you appeared on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Oct. 2, you meekly nodded as actress Janeane Garofalo slandered conservative protestors as racist because the president is black. Your district deserves better than this.
Ms. Kaptur, despite your passion for your district, you have ceased acting in its best economic interests.
You buy support with goodies, from cookies and water graciously served to constituents at your Capitol office to the occasional porkbarrel check you ostentatiously bring home for favored projects.
But your district suffers double-digit unemployment and an exodus of employers and taxpayers because, in no small part, of your failure to advocate job growth, lower taxes and reasonable energy costs. We don’t need handouts; we need a representative who meets her district’s needs while hearing, obeying and respecting all her constituents.
When you first campaigned successfully for this seat, you stated that one of your predecessors, Thomas Ashley, had served long enough. Next year, you will have equaled Ashley in number of terms served; thus, by your own standard, you will have served long enough as well, a point proven by your ongoing failure to represent your district’s best interests.
Therefore, we are dedicating ourselves to your defeat. Either retire at the end of this term or be voted out of office in favor of a representative who will:
- Hear and respond to all sides of an issue;
- Cast knowledgeable and fully informed votes, with sensitivity to their impact on the district and the future;
- Practice consistent fiscal responsibility;
- Elevate defending and upholding the Constitution from a slogan to daily practice; and,
- Put what is right for the district ahead of political correctness.
Respectfully,
Thomas Berry,
for The Children of Liberty
Contact columnist Thomas Berry and the local Children of Liberty group at http://www.meetup.com/The-children-of-liberty/.
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Our 9th District figment is immersed in fallacious representation and, can never escape it. This Ghost rep. has never EVER claimed, screamed , or otherwise stated she would raise our taxes and diminish our citizens rights. And yet, she has ALWAYS voted for increasing taxes and has NEVER voted to increase our freedoms! Since Toledo/ Lucas County voters continue to re-elect this deceptive pol, one wonders, Why ?! Are they unaware of this deception? Do they not care about being lied to ? Or, are they cognitively part and parcel of this amazing deconstructing of AmeriKa ? It is a thoroughly perplexing phenomenon that belies reason ! The answer is BLIND IGNORANCE , to be sure. I cannot believe that the typical Kapturd voter thinks much past the remnants of his or her latest nose picking so, it’s has to be the Goebbels / Machiavelli Effect…lie and lie so often…the lie eventuates into the TRUTH ! Proof is evident in Toledo/ Lucas County’s ,state of economic dissaray for those who are truly blind and ignorant to FACTS ! …and ,the takers get the honey… givers sing the blues…
This comment was posted on November 20th, 2009 at 11:42 amHey T.F.P., webgods…it’s Daylight Savings Time, remember to change your clocks …backwards…
This comment was posted on November 20th, 2009 at 11:47 amI have contact Rep. Kaptur many times over the years and she has, without fail, always voted against my wishes.
This comment was posted on November 20th, 2009 at 2:06 pmI will never again vote for Marcy Kaptur.
“Mao Zedong, under whose tyrannical regime a nation was impoverished and tens of millions were slaughtered.”
Interesting comment.
Shop at Wal-Mart and support China, while the country still represses its people, but hold out Kaptur for blame…..odd.
Heck, U.S. leaders, and other around the globe, fell over themselves to meet with Zedong, Nixon, Kissinger, and many, many, more.
“To reclaim God in our lives, and in so doing, secure His place at the center our country’s social and political conscience. Natural law is the basis of our liberties, and we have a moral obligation to protect America’s Divine providence.”
http://www.meetup.com/The-children-of-liberty/
Question, then becomes, which God, and which candidate would bring, “God”, to our lives, through government or office?
This comment was posted on November 20th, 2009 at 10:03 pmEnough is enough with Marcy Kraptur. I have watched her antics since her second term in office. NOthing ever changes with her. Her voting record is abyssmal, she returns to the district for show pieces in the Blah showing how she is bringing home the pork once again.(usually a “payoff” for her vote) I plan to work with the Children of Liberty to make sure this miscreant is not returned to Washington
This comment was posted on November 21st, 2009 at 10:29 amAmen.
This comment was posted on November 21st, 2009 at 4:14 pmTy is right. What time is it now over there, 1200 A.D., Ty?
This comment was posted on November 23rd, 2009 at 5:09 pmHey Bancroft Hi person, are those sociology classes getting to your mind ? You seem to be like most Kapturd sycophants, dull and boorish beyond comprehension .( Idea: bottle that ability and sell as an insomnia remedy…billions could be made ! ) I’ve graphed the income and wealth that Kapturd has accumulated and crossed it with a graph of Toledo’s DEMISE !! The graph illustrates a PERFECT X…as Kapturd’s wealth exponentially increased, Toledo’s income, wealth, citizens, industry,schools, infrastructure , etc., have PLUMMETTED ! Only complete and total dimwits could support this deceptive pol…and WHO comes to my mind FIRST ?!
This comment was posted on November 24th, 2009 at 10:53 amWe all know what time it is in the New AmeriKa…it is 1984…and we are in the midst of lying leftists who LIE about everything!! The global warming LIE, the health care crisis LIE, the too big to fail LIE, the choice given to the unborn LIE, etc. Yeah, Bancroft Hi Sociology majors are replete with lies that they LEARNED as the truth. Sad, to be that BLOODY STUPID !!
This comment was posted on November 24th, 2009 at 2:04 pmThe “Children of Liberty” claim Marcy is in-accessible. I saw her walking around at every festival I attended this year (Birmingham, Polish, Irish, African-American) often walking around by herself. I saw many people walk right up to her and engage her in dialogue. They are pissed because she wouldn’t attend one of their twon hall meetings so they could create a scene screaming at her. Go ahead and whine and adjust your tin foil hats. We will continue to send her back because she does a good job.
This comment was posted on November 24th, 2009 at 5:32 pmDEFINE ” good job”…people streaming out of Toledo, businesses fleeing enmasse, schools in perpetual crisis and are very dangerous, infrastructure neglected and crumbling, wasteful spending, burdensome taxes, jackass pols, criminal pols, economic halfwit pols,…yeah, that’s an ABSOLUTELY GREAT JOB, if complete and total FAIULRE is your meaning there Uncle Bob. And the Hoffman Road Landfill, is a beautiful place to PICNIC !!!AAAAAAhhhhhhhhh…defending failure…AMAZING MADNESS displayed for all to read !!! This proves that edification by liberal lunatics ends some time SOON after birth !!!
This comment was posted on November 25th, 2009 at 11:35 amSo our infrastructure is crumbling… but then you get mad when she secures money for the district… It sounds like the problem is you all you’ve intellectually mastered is the use of the Caps Lock button when typing.
This comment was posted on November 29th, 2009 at 5:28 pmMaybe Johnny Rotten, knew the answer, when he penned;
“Don’t know what I want, but I know how to get it.”
This comment was posted on November 30th, 2009 at 10:57 amBancroft high school-er, can’t live without me heh? You add absolutely NOTHING to the debate. Liberals are nothing more than uncharitable,( give little, if anything to charities), heathen ( never go to church), dictator loving,( Castro, Chavez,ObaMao, et al), and basically, are as inhumane as viruses ! Plus, you fools believe the most unbelievable LIES in history ! Global warming, too big to fail, yeah, you suck up the drivel from liars like ALGORE, ObaMao, Slick Willy,FINKENSTINE, Kapturd, Gerken, yes indeed, you folks NEED big GOVERNMENT because….you’re HELPLESS ! Now, post to one of your own say like, the killer of four police in Oregon !!
This comment was posted on November 30th, 2009 at 2:46 pmKommissar Kaptur cares nothing for you proletariat swine. She dances to the tune played by Rahm Emanuel and the rest of the Chicago gang in D.C.
This comment was posted on November 30th, 2009 at 3:21 pmIt would be a nice change from unionist’s and Kapturd’s sycophants, to at least go to bat for her. I mean really kids, what has she done that isn’t ECLIPSED GREATLY ,by what she has inflicted upon us all! ( Know anyone who worked at Champion? A P Parts, Doehler, O-C, O-I,etc ? I do and did !) One would think that a litany of magnanimous things would pop up immediately and yet, none is forthcoming !? Why not ? Ohhh, not much there heh?! All they can do is moan. It is not I, who has anything to do with Toledo’s demise and yet, I get grief from these base posters. Bizarre thought like that is a profligates way of thinking…too bad for her supporters and the rest of us…something these folks do not seem to contemplate ! THINK: Donald , has less union members locally to extort dues from and, college folks and Bancroft Hi person, will have to travel away from here to find decent work. The flip side of the coin…just a thought kids. I really didn’t want to parry with you two however,I do not believe you see the BIG PICTURE….at all !
This comment was posted on December 1st, 2009 at 12:38 pmTy, you’re frothing at the mouth again. I can’t understand you when you whine.
This comment was posted on December 1st, 2009 at 2:00 pmIt’s kinda amusing.
Leave the free market alone, don’t interfere, but when when the marketplace changes, businesses close people move out of a city or region, the rep(s) in office are held to blame.
And the office holder is to do what? Interfere with the free market? Get spending for the area?
No, wait, that’s ear marks and spending of tax dollars on the area is bad, because that means spending tax dollars on something or some cause that some do not support.
The problems are local and need to addressed locally.
This comment was posted on December 1st, 2009 at 4:04 pmWhy would any business want to relocate to Kommissar Kaptur’s district? She’s one of the most anti-business clowns in Congress.
One party rule by the democRATS sure has worked out well for Toledo, hasn’t it?
Keep re-electing hacks like Kapturd and lil’ Ben Konop and watch your declining city replace Akron as the armpit of America.
This comment was posted on December 4th, 2009 at 1:54 pm“Bob” and “UT Student” thank you for stating so succinctly and rationally what many Lucas county residents know about our dedicated representative. Marcy Kaptur does an excellent job of listening and working tirelessly for her constituents. That is why the MAJORITY of her constituents will continue to send her back to the House of Representatives.
This comment was posted on December 27th, 2009 at 10:41 amVenezuela’s strongman Chavez,is re-elected for his tireless work nationalizing EVERYTHING TOO !! So, is N. Korea’s Kim Jung Il, Cuba’s Castro,Lybya’s Ghadafi, the Saud’s, etc. We know what economic adolescents did for Little Detroit.
We are soon to find what dissolute gender confused reprobates can do for AmeriKa….real soon !ObaMao, has increased our trillion dollar debt from 41 % to 53 % , in ONE YEAR !! 5.8 TRILLION to 7.6 TRILLION in less than ONE YEAR !!
How’s that Mr.or Mrs. V , or whatever you are? Debt to your children, grandchildren , and GREATGRANDCHILDREN !! Oh, Thank you Rep. KAPTURD, thank you thank you thank you !! What godless heathens you vermin are.
This comment was posted on January 12th, 2010 at 11:03 pmThe majority of Kapturd, voters are so bloody ignorant of her horrific reign, it is pathetic. Hugo Chavez, is re-elected with majorities in Venezuela too. So, is Barney Fwank, the Castro brothers in Cuba, Muamar Quadafi, in Libya, Jung Il Kim, in N. Korea,that little runt in Iran,etc. And, we have seen what ruin these psycopaths have wrought , haven’t we ?!
This comment was posted on January 13th, 2010 at 11:03 am