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Related: About this forumSenator Cornyn: Overwhelming Public Input Causing Web Site And Voice Mail Crashes
Senator John Cornyn, who represents 28 million Texans, says hes been inundated with comments about the nomination of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary is a case in point.
And you can imagine the volume of phone calls and mail and social media contacts that we get on a daily basis. And theres no doubt that there was a concerted campaign by the establishment to try to sink Ms. DeVos nomination.
The offices of Senator Ted Cruz and many other elected officials have also seen a deluge of public input. Senator Cornyn blames organized efforts for tying up Senate offices with a deluge of phone calls and emails.
Notwithstanding our best efforts, we werent able to respond to all of them. They effectively crashed our voice mail system and threatened to bring down our web site and the like. But I think that this is part of the angry response to the fact that President Trump won.
Read more: http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2017/02/08/187158/senator-cornyn-overwhelming-public-input-causing-web-site-and-voice-mail-crashes/
oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)ever occur to them that the PEOPLE are trying to be HEARD!
F**kers!!!
chillfactor
(7,576 posts)as the orange man and his family does.
manicraven
(901 posts)Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)What? DeVos is anti-establishment? Anti-public education but anti-establishment? He's been taking lessons from Conway.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)I wonder when Texas will have actual representation in the U.S. Senate again....rather than a couple of bought-and-paid-for republican humps.