If you ever wondered why I am so ashamed to say that my congressional district (TX-32) is represented by Pete Sessions, check out this this latest story.
Sessions, who has been against everything from bringing more jobs to his district to protecting the rights of average folks like me, found time to send a supportive email to accused swindler Allen Stanford.
More below.
According to the story that appeared on the website of KXAS, my area's NBC affiliate:
Rep. Pete Sessions wrote an email to Texas financier Allen Stanford hours after the billionaire was accused of swindling investors: "I love you and believe in you," the Miami Herald reported Sunday.
The newspaper said the longtime Republican congressman from Dallas sent the email on Feb. 17, the same day the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused Stanford of cheating investors out of $7 billion.
"If you want my ear/voice -- email," it said, according to the Herald. It was signed "Pete."
Sessions won't hear the voices of average folks like me who struggle to make ends meet, but he has time for this Allen Stanford? How is this reprresenting the needs of his district?
More from the story:
After reports in February that Sessions had accepted $41,375 from Stanford since 2000, a Sessions spokesman said the congressman did not know the banker personally.
But a photo then surfaced of the two during a 2005 trip Sessions and several other lawmakers took to Antigua. The picture was originally published by the Antiguan government.
A man who can't tell the truth about who he associates with can't be trusted to represent folks like me in his district. Putting it mildly, Sessions must go and I sure hope a good opponent can be found who can take the fight to this guy and send him to defeat in November.
(For more on who Stanford gave money to, here's what McClatchy reported on its web site.)