I live in Oceanside, which works for me because I don’t like to live directly inside a big city, but have easy access to it if I need it... plus all the SD county cities are medium-size cities in their own right (Oside has 180k people alone.) We have all the services and institutions we need, plus lots of culture and…

Seems accurate

WELL I have great news for you: CA49 is part northern SD county, part southern Orange County. The North County SD portion of the district voted for Applegate over Issa, and Hillary won easily here, too. We are rapidly increasing in our progressivism here. It was the rich assholes in Orange County that just barely…

lol thanks

Once upon a time, I lived in Upstate NY and Paul Tonko was my rep. He voted the right way the vast majority of the time. When I would call his office to find out how he was voting on something I cared about, they took all my contact info, and I would get a hand-signed followup letter in the mail on that issue. It was…

UUUGGGGHHH she must have gone through the same phone training as most of Issa’s staff... that’s more like how my calls to them usually go. Even the second staffer yesterday, I thanked her for being respectful and letting me finish my sentences, and somehow she took that as me complaining about her?

I wasn’t surprised that he’s voting for the crap healthcare bill (even though he’s publicly pretended not to support it), I was surprised by the abusive language from the guy who answered the phone. Like I said, not my first time calling the office, not even my first time having unpleasant interactions with his staff,…

I just... if you called ANY business at all for customer service and they treated you that way, it would be in that moment that you would start thinking litigiously. I don’t know how anyone would think it’s acceptable to conduct themselves that way in any professional setting, much less when you’re working for an…

::eyeroll::

Thanks :-)

Thanks :-)

You could run a Miss Cleo business, because sounds legit to me.

It makes a difference!

We came THISCLOSE to getting rid of him

wow thanks lol... I’m not sure I’m reaching hero level when there are activists in my district who are staging impressive protests on Tuesday mornings once a week, but we all have to try and do our part.

Thanks for the support, and I’m right there with you... I thought the news-induced anxiety was bad when Bush was president, but sometimes it’s too much to handle.

Awww thanks, but I moved to California from Upstate NY when my employer at the time was trying to get me to move to Western Mass lol...

I WISH... I might figure how to do that and start doing it from here on out. I would love to have sent that to a local news outlet.

YES TO ALL OF THIS and I would have loved to enlighten Issa’s douchebag staffer, if he had let me finish even a single sentence before screaming over me.

Thanks for the info :-)