Congressman Chooses His Constituents
Representative Mike Honda (CA-15) is holding a tele-townhall “raffle” for access to his Tuesday, August 25, 2009 @ 6:30PM event. If you are a constituent, you can throw your name, address, email address, phone number, and zip-code into the hat and see if you are one of the lucky constituents who will be blessed by the presence of Rep. Honda’s voice. I may seem a little perturbed. Why you may ask. When I feel my federal Representative is hiding from his constituents, especially when he is needed the most raises a danger flag. When your Congressman has to collect all this information from you in order for you to have a public forum, this presents a problem.
And it is not that fact Rep. Honda is holding a tele-townhall. It is the fact that Rep. Honda is deciding which one of you he wants to call to include in his tele-townhall. So now we have Rep. Honda’s office collecting information on his constituents in order to increase his mailing list?! BTW, don’t forget to signup for my mailing list as well 
With all the health care rallies going on against the healthcare reform, Rep. Honda shouldn’t look like he is hiding from his constituents. He should face them straight on and look them dead in their eyes when he says he believes in HR3200 and then we can have discussion as to why he believes so. Don’t turn a molehill into a mountain.
Congressman Mike Honda, is this the image you want your constituents to perceive you as. One who hides in the darkness when things get tough. Please don’t think this will pass if you just ignore the problem. It looks like your advisors are going to make things worse for you by trying to minimize or ignore us.
I will call his office to see if I can get to interview Rep. Honda on the current affairs and concerns. I will report back with their response.
California district 15 constituents can sign up for his tele-townhall raffle http://honda.house.gov/telephonetownhall/
