must be an even numbered year coming up...

...because the early sings are calling for mid-term elections and the campaigning ( which never really stops among representatives ) is about to accelerate to the point of weekly mailings extolling the virtues of candidates..much like this one which "...was prepared, published, and mailed at taxpayer expense" ( have a shufti just below old pete's photo )...it is true that the "town hall meetings" aren't scheduled to begin until next month which is, barely, officially part of election year...still...never miss a chance to hammer home name recognition to the voters...especially when they are paying for the privilege...that aside i have some questions...if he's attempting to defend steelworkers from the ravages of foreign steel he is failing...you can find steel from chins, india, turkey, and who knows where else right here in pete's district...and when it come time to license bp/ammoco to dump more benzine into lake michigan he has a marked tendency to vote "yea"...he has many donors: Industry Total Building Trade Unions $74,792 Defense Electronics $69,500 Defense Aerospace $58,200 Electric Utilities $51,750 Lobbyists $45,894 ...and building trades unions are the largest single donors ( these figure are from 2013-2014 on the "open secrets" web site...the most recent i can find at the moment ) but they are seriously outspent by corporate donors...we should take his "defending workers" claims with a healthy grain of salt...i have absolutely nothing negative to say about those who have served in the armed forces so i would encourage him to continue working in their behalf...as far as "keeping america safe" goes, from what? from church shootings to snipers with bump stocks in las vegas the violence i am seeing appears to be home-grown terrorism...we live in dangerous times, however i am thinking the greater threat is internal...as for the airport. i don't fly much and i don't need L-1011s parked in my back yard...and what public transport do we speak of? i don't know where the train pictured in this mailing is but it isn't in pete's district...neither is that spiffy road...freeways here are a rat's nest of construction and delays...nope..i may be paying for it but i'm not buying it...another foul election season dawns...where is the lake of fire?