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Originally Posted by Gino
You can try to get kayakfisherman together and try to pressent the MLPA as an issue and get her support for it etc. Its a little late in the game for that.
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I have been trying to get a response out of Whitman's campaign for months. I have sent several emails which explain the MLPA issue and ask for a statement of her position. No response. I have also called her offices and spoken to a bunch of people. Everyone in the Whitman campaign whom I have spoken with told me that someone would be getting back to me soon with answers to my questions. Yeah... right.
To be fair, I got the same lack of response from Brown's campaign.
I think that this is one of those issues that these politicians simply want to ignore. If they take a position, they are going to piss off some potential voters so why chance it.
Maybe my efforts are just a waste of time. Even if I got a hand signed letter from Meg telling me that she was in our camp, what would that be worth. The first time the political winds started to blow the other way, she would probably jump ship and support the other side. After all, she has spent more money than the annual budget of the DFG trying to will this election. Why risk screwing things up by actually listening to the citizens.
When I started trying to pin down some politicians on this issue, PAL told me that I would get really frustrated trying to get something out of Whitman and Brown. Well, Paul was right. I'm there.
Maybe if hundreds of people sent letters and emails on this subject, we might get some attention but a single voice during an election campaign makes as much noise as a tree falling in a distant forest.
Bob