Dear Brian C. Liss, Republican candidate who “plans to exhaust all legal means to unseat Susy Blake,” a present state representative who I voted for and continue to support.
I received your letter in the mail today. Congratulations on your apparent candidacy for state representative of District 13!
Though I have never heard of you in my life, your letter took me by surprise.
See, you refer to yourself as a Freedom Fighter. It’s right there in your signature! “Brian Liss, Your freedom fighter!” With exclamation points and everything!
Here’s the thing. Despite your letter’s insistence, governmental support for public services is not “socialism.” And the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act isn’t “unprecedented intergenerational theft.” (Also, you should probably hyphenate that one. “Inter-generational.”)
Those things don’t mean the same thing. They never have. Buy a dictionary.
I’m struggling to determine which freedoms you’re fighting for, and why I’m in need of a freedom fighter in the first place. I get it, though. You’re using baited buzz words in order to scare those who aren’t paying attention into backing the standard Conservative Agenda. Ha! Conservative Agenda. Get it? I’M USING YOUR TERM AGAINST YOU! LOL!
Let’s get one thing straight. I supported Susy Blake last election. And I will again, especially if you are running against her, Mr. Brian Liss, Republican. See, I appreciate a candidate that doesn’t run screaming to the party line in order to make a case for election. I respect a candidate that positions the argument as “here’s why you should vote for me,” not “here’s why my opponent sucks and why you shouldn’t vote for her.” Most of all, I’ll support a candidate that backs away from hyperbole and weasel words, instead offering factual evidence, explanation and cautious realism.
Oh, and there’s the issue of class. This letter has no class, Brian Liss, Republican. It’s brash and intrusive. It doesn’t belong in my mailbox. It doesn’t belong in any mailbox.
You missed an opportunity, I think. When you’re connecting to those of us who aren’t officially affiliated with a party, you are representing your entire party’s platform. So next time, remind me why I should vote for you. Because all you’ve done with THIS mailing is remind me why I never will.
That was one of the most awesome dismantlings I’ve seen in quite some time.
Dear Corey,
I am pleased to make your acquaintance. There are several competing definitions of socialism. Some apply to the ARRA, some don’t.
Inter-generational goes without a hyphen in my Webster’s and on my MS Word. However, it looks better with a hyphen.
When Obama took over, the debt of the USA was at 10.6 trillion dollars. The ARRA (the stimulus) pushed the debt to unprecedented new highs. However, there has been a great deal of new deficit spending since then. The current debt number is closing in on 13.1 trillion.
The debt level achieved by the USA should shame both of the major parties. This is one reason I have spent most of my adult life as an Independent.
The basic problem is that more government means less freedom. A dollar of public spending kills roughly twice as much private economic activity.
Susy has in several instances voted the same way I would have. However, the ARRA vote marks her as a politician who is unmindful of basic economics. We cannot afford her.
Sincerely,
Brian Liss
You’ve been an Independent in the past. But you are running on the Republican name. Which makes it convenient to overlook the fact that Bush’s last year in office saw the national debt go from $5 Billion to $10 billion in one year.
The only difference: Obama’s debt increase is being put toward programs that actually help families get out of the mess that occurred while Republicans led the nation. Debt increase has actually slowed since Obama came into office.
I don’t agree with everything Obama’s done. Thankfully, we’re not talking national politics – we’re talking state-level politics, several levels removed from anything happening in the White House. Connecting Susy to Obama is like blaming a Sioux Falls Skyforce loss to something that happened in the NBA.
Susy’s ARRA vote marks her as nothing more than someone who understands her job – to help the people of her district, of which I am a part, take advantage of stimulus funds that are there, regardless of how stubborn the opposing party is.
If you’re looking for people who have been unmindful of basic economics, take a look at the party that put us in this mess to begin with.
A party that, despite your best intentions in the past, you now claim to be a part of.
It’s funny. I have benefited from stimulus dollars, of a sort, both in tax breaks and in home ownership. And thanks to those dollars, my family is able to live without worrying about where our next meal will come from or whether we’ll ever spend a night evicted from our home.
Which, to be honest, feels like the very definition of freedom.
So save the spin, Brian. It’s only fooling those who aren’t really paying attention.
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