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To the other posters/lurkers in this thread...does the original post sound familiar at all?
Dan...which of these groups do you belong to?
ACLU Of Texas; BCDEMS; NEBCD; SAAPAC; SoulforceSATX; Takebacksanantoniodems; Texas-Democrats, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center; Yahoo Impeach Bush Now;
ihatebushfanclub; texas_kos
Dan, who sent the e-mail?
To the other posters/lurkers in this thread...does the original post sound familiar at all?
Dan, please link the people on your mailing list to my post about the differences between news articles and columns.
I get tired of explaining it constantly.
Also, have anybody feel free to e-mail me if they'd like further explanation.
http://star.txstate.edu/index.php?op...d=80&Itemid=52
My contact information is there...I'm the managing editor.
Screw it.
[email protected] - Personal
[email protected] - Work
I'm tired of this BS.
I don't understand the point this thread is trying to make.
Ms. Guajardo herself is a racist. She read racism into an email that contained none. She made the call to the mans employer, why? It served
no purpose other than get him into ho er and cost him his 27 year
career. Go back under your racism rock, Dan.
Not everyone sees the same thing in every written word.
Too people can read the same article or column and have two totally different interpretations of what they read.
Some say she over used her "power"..well in my opinion, Mr. erson chose to use his power to end his life.
Next election vote her ass out!
Actually, real concerns get lost when elected officials are more concerned with reporting imagined bigotry than addressing the problems that cons uents present.
What's particularly troublesome here, is that Guajardo appears to essentially admit that she recognized that erson was an Oak Hills resident and was less concerned with his complaint because she never heard from him and rarely heard from anyone in Oak Hills. So, apparently, until you complain enough and correctly, Ms. Guajardo has no particular interest in addressing your complaints about the quality of life in parts of her district. That is appalling.
What's even more appalling to me is the continuing insistence that Ms. Guajardo did absolutely nothing wrong in her handling of this situation. She violated the trust that should be implicit between an elected official and a cons uent. She took it upon herself to act as a super-HR department for Zachry, rather than speaking with Mr. erson and discussing the bigotry that she inferred from what he wrote in his e-mail. Her actions, particularly in light of the inescapable inference from her comments concerning the lack of complaints about Oak Hills suggests that Ms. Guajardo distinguishes among her cons uents, listenting to some and ignoring others. She can no longer ignore Oak Hills -- the political pressure is too great -- but she certainly leaves one with a sense that she viewed her job as one of responsiveness to certain groups and ignorance of others.
It's shameful that people have turned this into a racial issue. It's also shameful, though, that some are so grossly political that they can't see this as a case of the sort of horrendous misjudgment that often results in the resignation of elected officials. Had Ms. Guajardo been white, black, or green, I'd still think that her actions in this cir stance were outrageous and that the voters in her district would have every right to demand her resignation.
I've sent letters to President Bush and he hasn't answered one of them!!!!!!
I've sent letters to my congressman and he hasn't come by my house to talk to me yet!!
And Phil hasn't had lunch with me yet either.
How dare they ignore my letters!
Yeah, I know I can an a-hole.
I've demanded resignations from public officials and not ONE has done so.
Well Bush did answer one of my letters, postman brought it to the doorI've sent letters to President Bush and he hasn't answered one of them!!!!!!
I've sent letters to my congressman and he hasn't come by my house to talk to me yet!!
And Phil hasn't had lunch with me yet either.
How dare they ignore my letters!
Yeah, I know I can an a-hole.
himself, didn't leave in the mail box.
Congressman has answered my letters, but never came to the door, hmmm,
do they do that? Senators have also answered. Postman doesn't bring
those to my door.
Haven't written Phil about anything.
Sorry they are ignoring you, maybe you are an a-hole....
Oh, and I did tell Clinton he was fired, but they kept on paying him,
and he ignored me too. Guess he knew I was a conservative.
But I have had several letters to the editor published in the SA Express news!
But may backyard door is always open for Bush to stop by for some Burgers and freedom fries. There is no hunting so Cheney won't be dropping by so nobody else will be dropping either.
So which ST poster tipped-off the KKK?
to like to attack the flora and fonda. Maybe your backyard is too clean, something
to think about before inviting him again.
They also haven't, I'm guessing, decided to tell your employer that you were writing to express concerns about government issues.I've sent letters to President Bush and he hasn't answered one of them!!!!!!
I've sent letters to my congressman and he hasn't come by my house to talk to me yet!!
And Phil hasn't had lunch with me yet either.
How dare they ignore my letters!
Yeah, I know I can an a-hole.
I'd be disappointed, but ultimately fine if Ms. Guajardo had just ignored the letter. As you say, elected officials do that all of the time. But in this case, she didn't just ignore it. She read it and decided to take action -- action against the letter writer. In doing that, Ms. Guajardo essentially told her cons uents that unless you approach her the right way, she will not listen to complaints and concerns and that she's more interested in exacting whatever political captial she can from the rhetorical faux pas of a cons uent.
Ultimately, what Ms. Guajardo did was chill the free exchange of communication with her cons uents, who now must be concerned not only with the substance of the communication, but also with the means by which it is conveyed and the possibility that some part of that communication might be used against them.
I'm by no means a supporter of this President or either Texas senator, but their failure to respond to your communications is hardly on the same level.
I don't understand the point this thread is trying to make.
Nbadan likes to address divergent points of view with a little old-fashioned guilt by association.
True, but I'm not going to kill myself over losing a job or being humiliated or embarrassed. Then again I've never sent an email from work and ALL my communications with public officials have ALWAYS contained my full name, address and telephone number.
I undertand and see why so many are outraged with Guajardo's actions. I'm just saying, in my opinion, she has no blood on her hands.
But that is just me.
Many people do. I get lumped into the bad, anti-patriotic "liberal" category all the time.
I don't think she has blood on her hands. Mr. erson was the person who chose to end his life, no matter how events played out up to the time of that decision.
But I do think there's ample reason for her cons uents to believe that Ms. Guajardo: (1) is not trustworthy; and (2) should resign. I can see why someone might disagree with those determinations, but I'm baffled by the notion anyone could find those sentiments are somehow racially-motivated or unjustified. I'd feel that way even if Mr. erson was alive today. In fact, I felt that way when I read the pre-suicide story concerning this series of events.
Hey, I'm baffled by people every freakin' day. Again, two people can and will see, read, feel things differently. To me, I can see how she came to her conclusions. I don't agree but I can see it.
It baffles me how nobody can see it and yeah I admit it isn't clear as day but again, that is just me.
And JohnnyBlaze has put me in my place but it didn't change how I view things.
Surely you must understand cognitive dissonance Mr. Peabody.I don't understand the point this thread is trying to make.
But your revelation about some of the people who are also upset over the situation does not add anything to your argument. You posting hate-inspired rhetoric from the Vanguard News Network (what the were you doing over there anyway?) doesn't sway my opinion that Guajardo acted in a manner that is, at best, questionable.
I am sure that there are many opinions that I have that are shared by people I wouldn't want to be associated with. But I don't base my opinions on who is out there agreeing or not agreeing with me. I base them on what the liberal media and Hollywood tells me to believe.
^^you are in trouble now.
You must be one of them scientiologists fellas.
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