The poor woman can scarcely put two sentences together with writers and weeks to rehearse, and you expect her to respond to questions which might, you know, require some nodding acquaintance with the subject matter to answer without sounding like a moron.

This merely confirms for many the lack of compassion on the right. It’s as if we were pushing kids in wheelchairs down staircases!

Leave this poor woman alone or, better yet, send her a gift – preferably something shiny or sparkly.

If you can’t even manage constituent service in a district that leans to the other party, you’re bankable toast.

She’s done a terrible job at making herself available, though I will admit she’s better at responding to inquiries than some others in Colorado. I’ve always gotten an answer when I called the office, and received either a letter or email reply to my input.

Cory Gardner
Tom Lucero
Diggs Brown

MARKEY BLOWS OFF FOURTEEN

EASTERN COLORADO COUNTIES

Plans No Town Meetings in Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Crowley, Otero, Bent, Prowers and Baca Counties

DENVER – Congresswoman Betsy Markey will hold no town meetings in fourteen Eastern Plains counties in the Fourth Congressional District during the August congressional recess according to a schedule she released today.

“Betsy Markey must not be aware that the Fourth Congressional District includes nearly every county on Colorado’s Eastern Plains or perhaps she just doesn’t think the opinions of fourteen counties in her district matter,” said Colorado Republican State Chairman Dick Wadhams. “Even in the four counties where she will be holding meetings this month, she will be restricting public access to her on important issues such as the failed Obama health care proposal.”

According to a release by Markey today, she will be having meetings in Boulder, Larimer, Weld and Morgan counties she calls “Congress in your corner,” where only 20 people at a time will have direct access to her.

Her release lists no meetings in Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Crowley, Otero, Bent, Prowers, or Baca Counties on the Eastern Plains.

“Betsy Markey is clearly terrified to truly make herself available to any and all constituents throughout her district,” Wadhams said. “But it is reprehensible she would totally blow off the citizens of fourteen counties in her district on such a critical issue like health care reform.”

“Betsy Markey has no discernable position on whether she supports a ‘public option’ that would destroy private health insurance or if she supports a tax increase on small businesses and families or if she supports driving up the federal debt or if she supports cutting Medicare to finance the failed Obama health care proposal.”

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