After reading Slinkerwink's diary today, I once again began the calls to the Senators on the Finance Committee. Most of the people answering the phones were polite.
A few of the numbers I called just never answered.
I was doing my duty as an American citizen, expressing my feelings on
the ridiculous "Trigger Option" and the guaranteed to doom health care reform "Taxing employee health care benefits" option, and saying I wanted
single-payer all the way.
When I got to Senator John Kerry's Washington number: 202 224-2742,
I got a rude awakening.
The young lady answering the phone asked me for my Massachusetts address
and when I said I didn't live in Mass., she said you need to call your Senator. I said, I'm a Citizen of the United States and he's on the finance committee deciding these issues, she hung up on me.
Now, I wasn't ranting. I was polite.
She hung up on me.
She hung up on me.
I tried calling back and the phone just rang and rang.
So, I went to his web-site and looked up an alternate
Phone number in Boston: 617 565-2742.
While looking up the website, I came across a little article
about health care reform advocates visiting his office and
him calling Homeland Security. I think it was May 19th.
Here's a link: http://www.democraticunderground.com...
Anyway, I called the Boston Office, explained what had happened
to me when calling the Washington office, and the young lady who
answered the phone was polite. I told her not to tell me to contact
my senators, because they were both republicans and, because they
were not on that ocmmittee.
She foisted me onto another person, a male, who told me to call
my own senators. I went through the spiel again and he said
he would not leave a message for Senator Kerry.
That guy who came back from Nam all fired up with idealism and
belief that you could change the world and the government by
peaceful protest either never existed, or was removed from
John Kerry's body when he sold his soul to the devil.
I'm going to write a letter to him, but it's doubtful he will
ever see it. It will be destroyed by his minions.
Well that's my rant.
Forgive me.