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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,026 posts) Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:24 PM Oct 2013

Steve Southerland Becomes First Target Of Democrats Post-Shutdown

Rep. Steve Southerland (R-Fla.) has the dubious distinction of being Democrats' first target in the aftermath of the government shutdown.

House Majority PAC, a super PAC that aims to help Democrats win control of the House of Representatives, released a TV ad on Monday hitting Southerland for voting against the bipartisan legislation to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.

"These guys don't get it -- their games are hurting real people," says the narrator. "Yet when Congress finally ended the shutdown, Steve Southerland voted no. He voted to let the country default on its obligations."

The ad also lambastes Southerland for saying his $174,000 salary is "not so much."

"Steve Southerland's reckless Tea Party government shutdown cost our economy $24 billion, yet rather than back a bipartisan plan to end this manmade debacle, Southerland actually voted to drive our nation off an economic cliff,” Andy Stone, communications director for House Majority PAC, said in a statement. "The jobs, retirement accounts and wellbeing of families, seniors and veterans in north and northwest Florida apparently didn’t merit Steve Southerland's concern -- even though Southerland was still getting his taxpayer-funded salary."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/steve-southerland-house-majority-pac_n_4136641.html?ref=topbar

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Go GET him! That idiot is my representative csziggy Oct 2013 #1

csziggy

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1. Go GET him! That idiot is my representative

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Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:46 PM

Oct 2013

The first time I called his office, the staffer refused to say whether or not he was a tea party follower until she thought I approved of their policies. Within days of that first call during which I gave them my name, telephone number and zip code - thinking they needed it to confirm that I was a constituent - I started getting calls from right wing fringe organizations. I believe that Southerland is selling names and numbers of his callers to these groups so they can try to get money from us.

I also get calls for his "town halls" - mass telephone calls during which he takes only carefully selected, pre-vetted questions. There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Southerland would ever take one of my questions, so I refuse to sit through the extended period of stupidity that ensues.

The good news is that Gwen Graham, daughter of former Governor & Senator Bob Graham, is running against him. If the state and national Democratic parties (and maybe a few PACs) through their support behind her, she should be able to win, even in the red Florida Panhandle!

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