To: MountainDemocratEditor
Cc: MtDemocratChiefEdMikeRafferty
Subject: Letter to the Editor – McClintock Revealed worst local legislator of all.
District 4 U.S. Representative Tom McClintock met with a group of local citizens Feb. 20 in Shingle Springs at the offices of Carlton Engineering to “talk and hear from constituents”. This stealth gathering deserves the headline: “Fake Republican holds Fake Town Hall meeting”.
McClintock may be aptly called a Fake Republican because he revealed himself as actually a radical Libertarian.
His gathering was a Fake Town Hall meeting because it was: 1) not widely publicized, 2) was a cozy gathering of invited real estate agents and Chamber of Commerce members, not a cross-section of the general public whom Mr. McClintock was sworn to serve, and 3) was held at a corporate office beholden to developers, not a public building.free of potential conflict-of-interest.
McClintock’s radical Libertarianism manifested itself by his postured positions that “government is the problem”, and El Dorado County “shouldn’t take any federal stimulus funds” because it’s “only our money we shouldn’t have sent to Washington in the first place.” Libertarian Tom turned a deaf ear to the roomful of people complaining and moaning about lost jobs, lost income, foreclosed homes, and hardly any real estate sales. He couldn’t be bothered with real people’s urgent real problems; he could only repeat his lift-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps Libertarian mantras. McClintock gave no detectable signs of the compassionate conservatism that marks so many real Republicans.
When people tried to ask him questions about any issues other than tax money, his apparent sole specialty, McClintock quickly turned the subject back to his only knowledgeable subject.
Even McClintock’s sorry predecessor, John Doolittle, under FBI investigation, at least made sure that local people got benefit from their federal taxes. But not Travelin’ Tom, the newly-arrived politician from Southern California. If McClintock had his way, you’d never see a dime of your tax dollars returned to El Dorado County.
The past election a lot of people voted for Democrat Charlie Brown, a former Republican, for our Congressman. A few more voted for Tom McClintock thinking that they were voting for a Republican. Guess again.
Libertarians believe that the individual answers only to himself and does not concern himself with other people’s problems. They have a poster boy in Tom McClintock, the congressman masquerading as a Republican.
– Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
Diamond Springs
P.O. Box 1009, Diamond Springs, CA 956
When people tried to ask him questions about any issues other than tax money, his apparent sole specialty, McClintock quickly turned the subject back to his only knowledgeable subject.
Even McClintock’s sorry predecessor, John Doolittle, under FBI investigation, at least made sure that local people got benefit from their federal taxes. But not Travelin’ Tom, the newly-arrived politician from Southern California. If McClintock had his way, you’d never see a dime of your tax dollars returned to El Dorado County.
The past election a lot of people voted for Democrat Charlie Brown, a former Republican, for our Congressman. A few more voted for Tom McClintock thinking that they were voting for a Republican. Guess again.
Libertarians believe that the individual answers only to himself and does not concern himself with other people’s problems. They have a poster boy in Tom McClintock, the congressman masquerading as a Republican.
– Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
Diamond Springs
P.O. Box 1009, Diamond Springs, CA 956