Must Have Struck a Nerve

[Kire]

September 11, 2005

I picked up the phone tonight and the man on the other end said his name was Congressman Scott Garrett. I almost didn't believe it. I asked him twice if he was kidding. After he confirmed it twice, it dawned on me that he didn't like the letter I wrote in today's Express-Times blasting him for voting against Katrina hurricane relief. He was pissed. He started explaining to me that the reason he voted that way was because there was no oversight of the relief agencies, and if I had heard his remarks on the floor of the House I would have known that. Like I said. Pissed.

He asked me to write another letter saying that I now understand why he voted the way he did. He said he doesn't want his family going around thinking he's a heartless son of a gun. But the tone of his phone call (pissed), and the fact that he called me at my home, doesn't lead me altogether away from that conclusion. Here's why:

More: http://grotesquecorpse.blogspot.com/2005/09/must-have-struck-nerve_12.html

My Kos diary: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/12/115215/418

Previous DU post about the letter:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=167x2349