I hung up on a robocall from Erik Paulsen

[question everything]

but perhaps I should have listened. Perhaps there is a town hall where I can go with my own placard and demand that the government does not mess with my Medicare with a government program. (Am not on Medicare yet, but who would know?)

Meanwhile he has a survey

http://www.paulsen.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=121§iontree=13,16,121

[dflprincess]

1. I sent him a nasty email last night

after checking his website for a town hall schedule. The coward apparently doesn't have any scheduled.

What prompted the email was this press release about an Health Savings Account bill he introduced (there's a step backward)

http://paulsen.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=22&parentid=21§iontree=21,22&itemid=287

I told him that after seeing the Strib article about how much he's getting in "donations" from the insurance industry and pharma I could only wonder which insurance company wrote the bill and how much did they pay him to introduce it. Just for fun, I also asked why Medicare can't be expanded to all Americans or, at the very least, we can't have the same taxpayer subsidized insurance options he has.

I do not expect a response. I'll leave it to others to write well reasoned, polite emails. (They probably won't get a response either.)

BTW a week or so ago the Strib had an article about him in which he was quoted as spouting some drivel about wanting his daughters to have the same opportunities he did --- this from a man who voted against the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

I've heard he's as crazy as Bachmann, but smart enough to keep his mouth shut. Do you suppose he's visted C Street yet?

[mascarax]

2. Nope! Erik doesn't do town halls or show up in public, AFAIK

See short article on this - I'd noticed that he doesn't either.

http://mncampaignreport.com/diary/3694/dude-wheres-my-town-hall

His staff does respond to emails though - either canned answers about how he's just trying to keep taxes down (or whatever generic response that suits him) or even a somewhat rude one in response to healthcare (he ain't for it!). His "surveys" are far worse than Ramstad's (Old "Loaded Question" Jim, e.g. "Do you want to pay MORE taxes?"), and I believe are only direct mailed to his list/base (although if you write him, you'll get one).

I guess his goal for his daughters is the standard 77 cents on the dollar for wages!
Hmm, maybe that's gone down in this economy?

I've also heard that he was good friends with BSC Michele and veryclose to what she believes politically. Since he keeps a low profile, it's not known. I think Ramstad helped get Paulsen elected (not just robocalls but $$/fundraising), and that's unforgiveable. Ramstad isn't/wasn't "moderate", and he knows damn well what Paulsen is. Shame on him.

The DFL needs to find someone to run against Paulsen and take him out before he gets entrenched (or gets a C Street room!).