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At any rate, that certainly was a three-paragraph, mealy-mouthed, non-committal "We'll see" I got from my congressperson. Also a lead on the next link on the chain, though. There is a Judiciary Committee....
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 20:00:19 UTC from web-
@scribus my congressperson (my new one anyway, the old one got voted out last year) has been pretty consistently open about everything she plans to do... the last one stopped holding town halls because people kept asking questions she didn’t have answers to.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 20:09:03 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Mine's a pretty cookie-cutter Republican. Party line on all major issues.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 22:14:08 UTC from web-
@scribus I live in a congressional district that used to split its ballots, Obama won narrowly in 2008, Romney in 2012, and Clinton by 10 points in 2016, with the Republican House candidate winning handily all three of those years as well as every year between (and it was a Republican stronghold before 2008). So the way it USED to be was the congressperson here was a cookie-cutter Republican, but occasionally they’d back Obama (or rebuke Trump) on highly nationalized issues, and that’s how they survived. After 2016 the old Congresswoman got a little comfortable and just became a rank-and-duke Republican... then she lost re-election by 10+ points. Everyone thought it’d be one of the closest races in the country before that - it ended up being one of the first ones called.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 22:41:09 UTC from web
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