Contact Ron Kind about his support of bankruptcy bill!

[AllyCat]

Kicking from the GD page. Not my rep, but I might just call anyway! Calls from constituents will have more weight.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3473027

[gizmo1979]

1. just a sad sad day.

What possible motive for signing this crap bill?

[billkurtmeyer]

2. Call to Kind's office (troubling experience) Call Kind's office!

I called yesterday 4-15 my congressman local office (Ron KInd)in La Crosse - interesting how the person who answered the phone, his La Crosse coordinator when asked how he voted said, just a moment I will check. She came back and said, he voted no with a majority of Democrats. I then proceeded to give her an earful about what a terrible piece of legislation this was and nothing but a handout to the predatory banking and credit card industry and their money trough, who, I'm sure Kind is benefiting from. What is interesting is that this woman had to go check to see how he voted? I told her I thought this was poor management to not know on such an important piece of legislation. I then told her that In the past month I had called the same office as well as the Washington office twice (apiece). Every time I got someone on the phone who acted like a deer in headlights, and acted like they had no idea what the bankruptcy bill was and had to check with someone else. Every time I asked to speak to an informed person who could explain to me how and why Kind could possibly vote for such a piece of crap. Well guess what? Every time they took my name and contact information and said someone would get back to me - surprise no one ever did. When I informed this woman about this she told me that "well we have interns that answer the phone." My response was "wouldn't it make sense to have informed interns answering the phones? and shouldn't you get back to constituents when you say you will?

Help me as I am fairly new to Wisconsin and don't have a lot of experience with Kind or his background but beyond the money how could he vote for this crap? She did inform me that the DLC supported it, which I then told her that the DLC is now irrelevant and nothing but Republican light. Does anybody out there have similar experiences with Kind's office and their responses to concerns? I had a very similar experience with Kohl's office. In the end I told her that in all good consciousness I could not vote for Kind in the future given this vote and their response to my concerns, I won't vote for the Republican.

Beyond the money angle -- how could Democrats vote for this - help me to understand??

I urge everyone to call their Democratic congressman if they voted for this piece of crap! Give them an earful!