Real nice way to treat your constituents..

[ObamaKerryDem]

So my mother lives in Arizona (as do I). Just the other day, she gets a robocall on her machine from none other than John McCain, talking about how he needs help killing "Obama's Big Government Take Over of Health Care" and to call the aforementioned number--to his 2010 re-election campaign-- in order to respond. When she does, she gets a hold of this woman in his office, who proceeds to, when my mom does the audacious task of voicing her opinion on the subject (in favor of the bill), give her this really nasty response. She even went so far as to ask my mom what her insurance was and when she answered that she was disabled (after a bad accident several years ago) and on Social Security, she responded incredously--saying something like "where have I heard THAT before?" and called her "lazy" and asked her why "people like me should have to pay for people like you". She also proceeded to insult the President and the Democratic Party in general, calling us all "lazy" and "uninformed". Now it's one thing to have an opinion and I wasn't expecting people who worked for McCain to agree with us...but to get that personally nasty? It's also utterly unprofessional. I've worked/volunteered for several campaigns myself in the past few years, including Obama's in 2008, and we were SPECIFICALLY instructed to never talk to the people we'd run across who disagreed with us that way. It's just, again, unprofessional and a hell of a way to treat your constiuents. :grr: I think it also shows what these people REALLY think of anyone who isn't rich or able, for one reason or another, to pay for everything on their own. Their newfound, "grassroots populist" bullshit seems to be just that...bullshit. :thumbsdown:


So I fired off an e-mail to that office. I just don't think they should be able to treat people like that without hearing about it:



Hello,


My mother recently called in your offices to voice her disagreement with Sen. McCain's proposed ammendment and opposition to the health care reform legislation currently being debated in the Senate. She had received a robocall from your campaign and was instructed in it to call the number if she wished to respond. When she did so, she was treated very condenscendingly by one of the women in the office, who, during the course of the conversation, asked her what her own health insurance was. When she replied that she was on Social Security for disability, the woman on the other end of the line proceeded to tell her that she was "lazy" and that it was because of "people like you" that this problem existed in the first place. She also went on to insult the President of the United States, dismissing him as a "Community Organizer" who is "Unpresidential".

It may come as a surprise to you, but not all of Sen. McCain's constituents agree with his policies. But they--regardless of whether they voted for him or not--are his constituents nonetheless and thus deserve their voices to be heard, just as much as the constituents who share his views and policies do. This action by one of his office/campaign workers was very unprofessional and I must say doesn't send a very positive message for "bipartisanship", something Sen. McCain often talks about. You really should think long and hard about having your staff talk to constiuents that way. It may well be enough to cost him the votes needed to keep his seat next year.

Real nice way to treat your constituents..


Thank you for your time.

[muntrv]

1. You should have also said "since we are at war, criticizing President Obama

is giving aid and comfort to the enemy."

[ObamaKerryDem]

2. Hey, great point! LOL

:toast:

She did, however, get in when that woman went on about how "much better a candidate" McCain was, how Obama beat the pants off of he and Palin . As you can imagine, that woman didn't much appreciate THAT. :evilgrin: