In one weekend last month, Blue 19th raised $200 for Robert Ricketts to retire Randy Neugebauer. This website has chronicled the misdeeds of Randy's lack of concern for and utter lack of action on behalf of his constituents. There is literally no way anyone in the 19th District can argue that Randy has done a good job. He hasn't done anything!
For the month of October, Blue 19th is setting a goal of $500. You want to be a map-changer? You want to be a patriot? You want to get rid of the Republican Do-Nothing Congress and put someone in power who will actually do something?
Time to put your money where your mouth is - or more to the point, time to put your money on Robert Ricketts. DONATE today! Blue 19th is asking for you to send in ten dollars a week for four weeks. Forty bucks - that's less than a trip to the movies with popcorn and Coke for you and your spouse! That's a mighty low price to pay for having a Congressional Representative that does something.
Robert Ricketts' latest op-ed is posted at Blue 19th. Here's an excerpt:
Congress has lost its way. We can’t point our finger to an exact day, or year, that this happened. Perhaps it was never sure where it wanted to go. But today, we know for certain that it is lost.
How do we know? Look at what our Representatives do. An inordinate amount of the typical Representative’s time is spent asking people for money … wooing people who have a stake in the legislative process. They can say what they want, but the bottom line is that the principle activity in Congress today is to seek contributions from companies, industries, and wealthy individuals who look to government, rather than the marketplace, as their primary source of profit.
Of course, some of our representatives are more brazen than others in “marketing” their votes. One such member is Randy Neugebauer. In 2004, he took money from Tom Delay, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, Jack Abramoff, Bob Ney, and others. Unlike virtually every other member of Congress who received money from these tainted sources, Mr. Neugebauer refuses to give the money back. He feels no shame in being associated with men such as these. After all, he kept his end of the bargain – he voted the way they wanted him to. Why shouldn’t he keep the money?
To listen to the Bush Administration, these must be good days to be a farmer. Ag Secretary Mike Johanns is announcing a wonderful $780 million drought relief assistance package. Of course, $30 million of that is taken out of the conservation budget. And another $700 million is just accelerated payments that would have been received anyway.
Oh yeah - and drought related losses are about $21 billion. Nice. That means the payments are about 2.5% of losses. You want to know why? 60% of famers will get nothing at all. That means that the bill is likely to get challenged by the WTO.
The response has been terrific. A dozen people have dug into their own pockets to show that they mean business and Randy Neugebauer better watch his back! Our ActBlue page has been hotlisted and people are beginning to see that we have to take the battle to the Prairie Dog. This is where it begins, folks. This is where we draw a line in the sand and say, "No mas! Ya basta!"
Democratic candidate Robert Ricketts wrote for Blue19th yesterday that Mr. Neugebauer's conduct has been unbecoming of a US Representative. Immigrants coming to America with the dream of a better life and willing to work hard to make it a reality are not terrorists! They are symptomatic of a failed immigration policy that puts more value on votes than it does on humanity, controlling our borders, enhancing our security, or tending our economy. We don't know why Randy Neugebauer refuses to show any leadership on this issue, but we do know that he is failing to represent the interests of his district. He is a failed politician in a failed majority of a failed Congress.
Blue 19th is happy to offer its first ever Op-Ed, written by the Democratic Party candidate for Texas' 19th Congressional District, Mr. Robert Ricketts.
Throughout this campaign, Mr. Ricketts has demonstrated how different he is than the incumbent Prairie Dog Republican, Randy Neugebauer. Whereas Neugebauer speaks first and engages his brain at sometimes in the distant future, Mr. Ricketts has shown that he can deal with any topic with intelligence and forethought. As our country wrestles with the decision of what its image should be in the 21st century, we must call on all the wisdom and compassion that marks our history.
Mr. Ricketts writes on immigration this week, and shows that this is a topic in which he cares deeply - too deeply to let a Prairie Dog bandy about dangerous and racist rhetoric. Mr. Ricketts states:
At an Olney campaign stop last week, Neugebauer suggested that, like the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon, the Hispanic community in the United States wants to take control of our country. He further declared that over half of the prisoners in the federal prison system are “foreigners.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Abilene Reporter's Jerry Daniel Reed has an interesting story:
U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer on Tuesday challenged area public officials and citizens interested in keeping water flowing through the tap to turn talk into action. The Lubbock Republican was the keynote speaker at a water summit here - an event he conceived several months ago. ''We've got to move from 'It's on the way' to ''It's here,''' Neugebauer told about 150 people during lunch at the all-day summit.
Ah - Randy "conceived" of getting people together to talk about doing something instead of talking. Here's a list of Randy Neugebauer's efforts to secure federal funding for water and land conservation projects in the 19th District:
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I could go on, but I think you get the picture. What kind of a Prairie Dog holds a meeting to tell people to stop holding meetings? What kind of leader tells others to get off their duffs and do something when they haven't lifted a finger?
Answer those two questions, and you've answered a whole lot about Randy Neugebauer.
