For the life of me, I can't figure out why we let the same people run our government year after year. Democrat or Republican. These guys just get themselves in more pockets every year until they are no longer working for votes but instead are working for donations. What a racket.
Exhibit A, David Drier. Aside from some gerrymandering, Drier has basically "owned" the same District since 1981. That's 28 years of him "representing" us. He's 57 years old so basically he's spent half his life "working for you".
Unfortunately we are what is called a safe seat for the Republicans. We have ourselves to blame. Everyone thinks gov't is a mess except for the guy that represents them. No party should own a seat this way.
Drier was the target of KFI Hosts Jon and Ken's Political Human Sacrifice back in 2004 due to his perceived soft stance on illegal immigration. It was not enough to get him unseated but it sent a message...kind of. He's still in a super safe seat.
Although he's never come out, Drier is rumored to be gay. So much so that openly-gay Democratic Congressman Barney Frank, when asked whether Dreier was passed over for the position of House Majority Leader because of his "moderate" views, told a crowd of reporters "Yes, in the sense that I marched in the moderate pride parade last summer and went to a moderate bar.” Hilarious.
My negative tone is not because of his party, not because he's gay (allegedly), and not because of his stance on illegal immigration, it's just because he doesn't feel a need to represent us anymore. He knows we're going to vote for him because...he knows we won't vote Dem.
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Not to be snide, which of course I am being. Get to know your representative yourself: it's "Dreier", not "Drier".
The politicians have become to comfortable with the current 2 party system and think they are so safe they don't care what the people think anymore...it is time the people sent them a loud and clear message that we are sick of them both, and change our registration to Independent...I am a registered Republican, but not for long, we need a party for the people...and the only way to do that is to break up the current 2 party system that seems to be run by special interest groups. Right not we have no representation for the people. It will take Republican and Democrat voters to come together to send them a message...this may be the only bipartisan thing to ever come from these 2 parties
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