The disgrace of a congressman my area has been subjected to since Tom DeLay railroaded his Republican gerrymandering scheme down our throats has shown conclusively that he is all for advancing the interests of large corporations like BP at the expense of average folks like me.
The latest example of how Pete Sessions really feels about folks like me came not only in his membership in a Republican study committee that called President Obama's gaining of a $20 billion pledge from BP to help cover oil spill damages a "shakedown," but also in his refusal to even comment on the despicable statement of the congressman "next door," Joe Barton, apologizing to BP for what Obama did.
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While some other Republicans displayed great unease over Barton's apology, .Sessions was curiously quiet.
Here's what Politico reported:
Fellow Texas Rep. Pete Sessions declined to address whether Barton should step down (from his position as the ranking Republican on the House committee that heard the testimony from the BP head).
If he wanted to be truly representative of the average folks in his district, Sessions would not have hesitated in attacking Barton's comments. Through his silence, not only has he chosen to side with BP and against average folks like me (not to mention those on the Gulf Coast whose lives have been impacted by the spill), he has also chosen to side with the Republican study group of which he is a member that produced the following comment about President Obama's actions:
BP’s reported willingness to go along with the White House’s new fund suggests that the Obama Administration is hard at work exerting its brand of Chicago-style shakedown politics. These actions are emblematic of a politicization of our economy that has been borne out of this Administration’s drive for greater power and control. It is the same mentality that believes an economic crisis or an environmental disaster is the best opportunity to pursue a failed liberal agenda. The American people know much better."
Needless to say, folks like me in Sessions' district deserve better. Never again should we be represented by a congressman who so regularly takes the side of big corporations like BP and against the interests of average folks like me.
Sessions MUST be defeated in November.