Walsh not listening to constituents

Rep. Joe Walsh,

You recently wrote in the Daily Herald that your constituents are your bosses and said repeatedly that you listen to us. My experience is exactly the opposite. I don’t feel listened to at all. How can you say that your constituents are your bosses when not a single person in your district sent you to Washington to waste time and taxpayer money redefining rape, the first legislation you tried to pass? I doubt there are many in the 8th District who approved of you teaching students in the classroom recently by example that if you disagree with someone in authority, you can just ignore them, which is what you did by not attending the president’s address to Congress, and what you did to Speaker John Boehner when he asked you to support the debt ceiling vote. And there has been plenty of feedback from your constituents that you should get your own fiscal house in order before you try to tell the rest of the country how to handle its fiscal responsibilities.

You have said repeatedly that you did not go to Washington to compromise, but that says that you do not know how to govern, since government is all about compromise. No one in a functional Congress can simply be stubborn like a spoiled child and expect to get his way. How can you say your constituents are your bosses when you are working hard to get your approval rating from a low of 19 percent to go lower with all your actions? Mr. Walsh, you do not represent your constituents!

Peggy Simonsen

Palatine