[Fuusmchat] Attempted coup

[Jane Tumas-Serna]

Thanks Ralph.  I appreciate the time you spent on this well-written and
heartfelt letter.   Jane.

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On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 12:08 PM Ralph Olander via fuusmchat <
fuusmchat at fuusm.org> wrote:

> *I’m pasting my open letter to  Rep. Johnson.  Also sent this to the Times
> but we’ll see if that happens: This was a thread started on fuusm-l but
> I’ll move it here.*
>
> I didn't vote for you. Our positions on several social and financial
> issues differ. However, you have won reelection in this heavily Republican
> district, and I still accept and respect that you are our representative to
> the government in Washington, DC.
> Regardless of our differences on policy, if I encounter a problem in some
> issue with, say, the Social Security Administration or the Internal Revenue
> Service, and run up against some unresponsiveness on their part, I expect
> that your constituent services operation will provide assistance and
> intercede with the particular agency to determine the facts of the matter
> and impel them to resolve it or advise me of the facts to show me evidence
> of my error—to get at the truth. And I would thank you for that effort
> whichever way it went.
> So, you are not only my representative to the government, you are the
> government's representative to me and all your constituents. You have
> failed in this role and betrayed my trust in you in order to parrot the
> specious fulminations generated by our President and his lackeys of
> election irregularities that have been debunked ad nauseum by courts and
> election officials based on the fact of no evidence. Talk all you want
> about bias in the media—there's plenty on both sides. But those differences
> in perspectives all need to originate in some facts of the matter—the
> truth—and if one side or the other ignores or hides or contradicts the
> facts, I would at least expect my representative to communicate the facts
> to us directly, as when Senator McCain disabused a constituent of a fallacy
> about Barack Obama in that town hall meeting in a prior campaign.
> This you have adamantly failed to do as evidenced by your press release of
> January 5, in which you stick to the Trump Party line. Then, the next day,
> when the inevitable result happened of having your workplace disgustingly
> violated by those who were inspired by that amalgam of lies and fantasies,
> you voted to uphold the objections in the certification process.
> Therefore, you demonstrably betrayed your constituents, your supporters
> more so than me, by representing the Party to them rather than the truth.
> All you need to have communicated is that there was no evidence of problems
> with the election per the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
> Agency and many, many courts, and many state and local officials of both
> parties—and voted accordingly.
> I urge you to at least apologize to us all for this and be straight with
> us to help quell the chance of repetitions of the violence you have, in
> truth, abetted. Where do your loyalties lie?
> Sincerely,Ralph N. OlanderMarietta, Ohio
>
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