Meeting with Tom Perriello in DC
on November 6th, 2009 at 8:03 amThe Roanoke Tea Party sent 4 vans full of area patriots to DC on Thursday to take part in the hastily-arranged rally at the Capitol against proposed government health care legislation. We’ll have some photos from the rally posted soon, but in the meantime, here is a report from Sherry Hearn who also made the trip to DC, and met with Congressman Perriello afterwards.
Our group of four citizens from Roanoke met in person with Tom Perriello yesterday in his office in DC. We were part of a group of about 30 from Charlottesville and Bedford who waited outside his office to speak with him after the rally. Our meeting lasted about 12 minutes.
Sadly, I do not think we did much to change his mind on his vote. He probably will vote for the health care bill in spite of the opposition we and others expressed to him. There were thousands of letters stacked and unopened in his office, which you and I have sent to him voicing our opposition. I doubt seriously if any will be read and counted prior to the vote scheduled this weekend.
In other words, what we have done all summer and fall will probably amount to nothing with Mr. Perreillo. I think that whatever he does, his career is over. If he listens to his constituents and votes against this bill, the Democratic leadership will make it very hard on him. If he votes with them, his elected career is over, as he will probably lose his next bid for re-election.
Sorry to say, I think with Mr. Perriello, we gave it our best shot, and came up missing him. Our only hope at this point is prayer.
Another observation- Yesterday in the Metro station, there was a sign that read:
How much is a trillion??
To spend One Trillion Dollars at one dollar per second would take over 31,000 years.
National debt with this bill will exceed $12 trillion. What will we do???
Call your Congressman today and plead with him/her to vote no to health care bill.
You ask if I feel “let down”. The question you should ask me is, am I angry?
The answer is, YES. I’m angry whenever politicians are so arrogant that they think our Constitution exists only to be abused by them. I challenge Mr. Periello to show me where in the Constitution it says I’m REQUIRED to make monetary purchases to privately held companies, in this case insurance companies. He can’t and he won’t try, because he knows this clearly violates the 13th Amendment, i.e., ban of involuntary servitude. And really, subjecting all of us, under threat of fines and/or imprisonment for refusing to bow and scrape to this type of tyranny, is nothing more than an overt attempt to enslave us financially and economically to the private insurance sector (and, of course, the wonderful feral government).