Hero? Not to me. 37 years, he’s just another politician. He voted for the Patriot Act, which is now taking away many of the protections afforded us by the US Constitution. He voted for the Iraq War, even though at least 50 members of South Dakota Peace and Justice wrote letters to him in September 2002 pleading with him to vote against it. He voted for the 2001 Bush tax cut and against the one in 2003. But those tax cuts were to expire in 2010. When President Obama extended them for two more years, Senator Johnson voted in favor of making most of the tax cuts from 2001 and 2003, permanent. I wrote to him as well as each of our members of Congress, both parties every year for at least the past 20 years, to do something to fix our immigration system to eliminate the problem that we have at the border. But there is no response, they would rather have the political football to kick back and forth. When will we demand true representation in both Washington and Pierre?
I also wrote letters to discuss his stand on key issues. Most of the time there was no response, when there was a response it had nothing to do with the original subject.
Hero? Not to me. 37 years, he’s just another politician. He voted for the Patriot Act, which is now taking away many of the protections afforded us by the US Constitution. He voted for the Iraq War, even though at least 50 members of South Dakota Peace and Justice wrote letters to him in September 2002 pleading with him to vote against it. He voted for the 2001 Bush tax cut and against the one in 2003. But those tax cuts were to expire in 2010. When President Obama extended them for two more years, Senator Johnson voted in favor of making most of the tax cuts from 2001 and 2003, permanent. I wrote to him as well as each of our members of Congress, both parties every year for at least the past 20 years, to do something to fix our immigration system to eliminate the problem that we have at the border. But there is no response, they would rather have the political football to kick back and forth. When will we demand true representation in both Washington and Pierre?
I also wrote letters to discuss his stand on key issues. Most of the time there was no response, when there was a response it had nothing to do with the original subject.