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Demand a Refund!
You
bunglers, you incompetents, you wattle-
headed
hens! Your empty, anti-tax ideology has embarrassed
Virginia, made a
mockery of the General Assembly and made you look
the fool.
Dear
Members of the Legislature:
Again,
for the second time in three years, you have
produced utter, total, complete and miserable
failure in the matter of adopting a state budget.
Yours is a sorry record of ineptitude
unmatched in the history of Virginia.
We
want our money back. Not
just the few dollars you’re spending during this
extension of the legislative session.
We want it all back.
Please
refund your session pay and per diem immediately.
You sold us an empty bill of goods.
Under no pretext have you earned your pay.
Please refund it forthwith.
Your
performance is an embarrassment, and your manners
are just as bad.
You
asked for our trust, our confidence, but betrayed
them both.
You
should apologize.
You
are irresponsible. You
swore duty and fealty to our constitution, then
shirked that duty and forgot that fealty.
You
are arrogant and deceitful.
You are two-faced.
The Republicans among you are holding the
state hostage to ideology.
You swore "no-taxes-to-the-
death"
but put in $8 billion dollars in new spending bills.
You
owe an apology to every school child in Virginia.
You
owe an apology to tens of thousands of state
employees.
You
owe an apology to tens of thousands of our
educators.
You
owe an apology to every fireman, to every law
officer in Virginia. What "ideology"
condones pay rates for our state troopers that
qualifies some of them for food stamps?
You
owe an apology to the tens of thousands of folks who
so ably manage our local governments.
You have left them swinging.
Apologize.
You
owe an apology to every senior citizen, to every
sick, elderly and infirm person in this commonwealth.
What is the "ideology" that
condones the neglect of this segment of our
population?
You
owe an apology to every voter in
Virginia
.
You
owe an apology to all of us, to every man, woman and
child through whose veins course the sweet thrills
of
Virginia
. Your petty
gamesmanship, your pigheadedness, your pathetic
"ideology" is an embarrassment to all of
us.
We
sent you to do the business of the Commonwealth and
what did you give us?
You gave us a game.
And strife. And
back-biting.
We
yearned for statesmen and parlance, and dialogue and
reasonableness and we got cackling and dust fluffing
and tiny-eyed, manufactured fury usually found in a
poultry house.
We
wanted intellect and you gave us small-mindedness
that would be dwarfed by a butterbean.
We
deserve better. This
state deserves better.
We
want to get on with our lives.
We want a sense of well-being in our jobs,
and in our schools, and in our neighborhoods, and in
the places we call home.
And we want representatives who will help us
find these senses. You
told us to send you, we did, and you behaved
disgracefully. Now
we want our money back.
We
thought we were sending proud Virginians.
Have you no shame?
And
your so-called "leaders," those little
strutting, crowing roosters?
Ha! You
call that ‘leadership?’
There
is not one among them that would even rate a sigh or
second look from the homeliest wattle-headed hen!
Now
give that money back.
Barnie
Day
604 Braswell Drive
Meadows
of Dan,
Virginia 24120
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March 15, 2004
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