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[pantryslut]

Planned Parenthood. Public TV and Radio. Ad nauseum. And with it all, plea after plea to write my congressperson. Well. I have never been quite so simultaneously proud and frustrated to have Barbara Lee as my representative as right now, believe me.

(So instead I will provide links so you can write yours.)

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[fightingwords.livejournal.com]

Right? I mean, on one hand, it's great to know my representative is going to side with me. On another, I wish I had a rep that made letter-writing a bit more satisfying--I'd like to feel that I've made a difference.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

I'm in the same boat. "OK, I'll click to sign a thing demanding that my rep vote the way she was going to vote anyway... um, yay????"

I just keep wanting her to go into one of these debates and say "hey, as one of the states that subsidizes a bunch of y'all's states with our tax money, we'd like for you to shut the hell up."

[fightingwords.livejournal.com]

Jackie Speier did that pretty well, going so far as to disclose her own abortion history on the House floor. It was awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky2gylhdXRA

[elusis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I heard. Good on her.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I think I am going to write Lee tomorrow and suggest that she introduce a bill to halt or cut all funding of legislative salaries. Not because I don't think she deserves to get paid, but because I want to see her colleagues walk the walk.