Sensenbrenner's constituents in the 5th CD call him out.

ClassWarrior

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Mon Sep-12-05 09:06 AM
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Sensenbrenner's constituents in the 5th CD call him out.

Edited on Mon Sep-12-05 09:11 AM by ClassWarrior

Reposted from the Wisconsin forum by request, and received via email...

A half-dozen constituents of Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, in the 5th Congressional District from Milwaukee County, Waukesha County and Ozaukee County, visited Congressman Sensenbrenner's office at 120 Bishops Way, Room 154 in Brookfield, WI 64006-6294 to personally deliver a message to him.

With cameras from Fox 6 and WISN 12 rolling, we walked in to Congressman Sensenbrenner's office to tell him how appalled we were that he would choose this time to claim to be fiscally responsible. He didn't do it during the Bush tax cuts, and he didn't do it when he voted for Bush's Energy Bill with its over 6,000 cases of "pork" projects, but he did stand against providing immediate and significant help to hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast Survivors who've already suffered because of the Federal Government's incompetence.

This was our statement to him:

In the light of the poor Federal response in assisting the Gulf Coast Survivors, which has clearly delayed medical assistance and vitally needed food and water, causing additional unnecessary deaths, Congress stepped in to legislate assistance where Bush, Homeland Security and FEMA utterly failed.

The Katrina Relief Bill passed in the Senate 97-0, and in the House 410-11. You, Congressman Sensenbrenner were one of the 11 who voted against the bill.

You have been cited as claiming that the reason for your opposition was because there wasn't enough oversight of the money being spent. While that, on the surface, may be a concern, considering FEMA has been so incompetent in its handling of this National Emergency so far, and is being given the responsibility for the distribution of these funds, isn't it the responsibility of Congress to oversee the distribution of these funds? Why is it that you would block this aid to the survivors, and turn your back on them at this critical time when this funding is so desperately needed? This is unconscionable.

We are constituents of the 5th Congressional District, which you are supposed to represent, and we are appalled and ashamed that you would vote in our name, to hold back such critical funding to Americans, who are survivors of a government failure, in their time of need, when hundreds are dying and many more may very well end up with chronic diseases or death because of the widespread exposure to biological toxins on American soil. This is a National Disgrace of a Federal Responsibility, and Americans shouldn't have to hold out a tin-cup and beg to Congressional Representatives that are supposed to represent them.

While the cameras taped the exchange, neither Channel 6 (FOX), nor WISN Channel 12 ran the footage during their 6:00 evening news.

If you believe that Congressman Sensenbrenner should be more representative of his constituents in making sure that PEOPLE come ahead of "Pork" projects, please take this around to anyone in your community and get them to sign it and send it on to Congressman Sensenbrenner. Please send us a copy so that we can keep track of who you are, where you are and how many of you don't care for Sensenbrenner's priorities.

Note from CW: If you want to help my neighbors defeat Sensenbrenner, please help his 2006 opponent, Progressive Bryan Kennedy - http://www.bk2006.org

NGU.