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Frank Guinta Gets Schooled by Constituent

by: Dean Barker

Thu Aug 18, 2011 at 20:38:41 PM EDT
(Go Joan! - promoted by William Tucker)

Telling constituents you're not interested in raising revenue by taxing the wealthiest in a letter is easy.  Even if a supermajority of Granite Staters disagree with you, and your refusal to listen was the reason for the S&P downgrade.

Doing it in person is a lot harder, especially when your constituents are on to your misleading statements, and ThinkProgress is there to document it:

GUINTA: Well I think the way you raise revenue, my personal feeling is [...] I don't feel that raising taxes has to be the first option, there have to be many other options and alternatives before you raise tax rates. I feel like it can be regressive to raise rates on small businesses [...]

WOMAN: Most small businesses are never even in the bracket of which we speak. They never reach that. And when they do it's only the first dollar above the first $250,000 that is taxed at that higher rate. So it's really very misleading when 'Our small businesses need to be protected.' They already are. Because 80, 90 percent of them never even have taxable income at the rate you're talking about, so it's really very misleading, and I'm really sick of hearing this misleading stuff.

(find me > 140 on birch paper; on Twitter < 140)
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I was there shooting vid too (4.00 / 1)

I believe the questioner was Frank Efron a hell of a good and smart guy from Exeter. ( forgive me if I'm wrong, but I know Frank was there and it sure sounds like him)

As usually Guinta dodged.

Joan Jacobs gave it too him with both barrels blazing at once.

I have the whole eleven minute video and will post shortly.

When he veered into the weeds Joan called him on it.

Women are so unfair! (4.00 / 1)
And some men have their feelings so easily hurt.  

I do, btw, think Frank's sincere in referring to his feelings.  He's instinct-driven and goes by his gut.

Now, if we can just get over the notion that candidates have to be good fund raisers, because the media will only cover candidates that are serious and seriousness is measured by how much advertising they can afford to buy, we might get somewhere.
It might not hurt to realize that the media see themselves in competition with politicians for the hearts and minds of the electorate.  Which is why, when politicians refuse to engage with the media and allow themselves to be subservient, the media perceive that as a challenge and go on the attack. Media aren't hostile to get at the truth; they're hostile to make the third estate subservient to the fourth. Servile politicians go further.
Of course, citizen journalists, who are competing with the tradmed are definitely the enemy.
Life must be so frustrating for the poor press!

[ Parent ]
As Dick Ames said last evening (4.00 / 3)
(in reference to these guys) at Annie Kuster's event in Jaffrey:

They. Don't. Care.

They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.

Aren't capable of caring. n/t (4.00 / 1)

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They. Don't. Care. (4.00 / 4)
I have being saying that since the 2010 election and people I know laughed at me.  They don't laugh at me now.

National, local, it really is simple folks.  They. Don't. Care.

"We start working to beat these guys right now." -Jed Bartlet

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Gross. (4.00 / 2)
I can't believe this person is representing me.
Oh, don't worry, he's not. (4.00 / 2)
He's dutifully representing his corporate puppet masters.

"We start working to beat these guys right now." -Jed Bartlet
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HA! "Job creators." (4.00 / 2)
He still uses that talking point?

"Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors." - John Dryden
Made in the image of God, don't you know? (0.00 / 0)
If God could say "let there be light" and there was, Frankie pronouncing "let there be jobs" should have similar results.
[ Parent ]
So, she thinks he's being misleadng? (0.00 / 0)
n/t
Demand Creates Jobs (4.00 / 2)
Frank, not tax cuts.
If you don't want to get schooled by your constituents, Frankie, (4.00 / 4)
you should hire a couple of legislative aides, instead of having an entire staff of "communications" people.

"We now know that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob." - FDR
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