The Benefits Of Not Having A Senate Majority Leader From Your State
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
After attending the May 29th Tea Party, held at the Nevada Capitol and listening to the protest against the tax increases we got from the 2009 legislative process and the expected tax hikes that will be coming from Washington, D.C., I had a brief conversation with a young colleague who noted that if the tax protesters didn’t calm down between now and November of 2011 we could lose having a majority leader from our state in the driver seat of government power.
Seniority is supposed to be something which benefits your state, especially when the quality of your representation in the nation’s capitol is measured by the pork brought home. Having such authority and power at the core of the federal government is supposed to be something that we as Nevada citizens relish and gratefully remember when we enter the voting booths, returning our Senior Senator from Searchlight back to do more good on our behalf.
What if you don’t agree that the direction the country is going is the right direction? When the person is involved in steering things in the wrong direction – why are you supposed to consider it such a benefit to have such a powerful voice in influencing the outcome that you disagree with? When you are involved in an industry that this person has worked so hard to damage, currently using the federal treasury and your state’s Land Grant College to crash a viable irrigation system – please explain the advantages of such “advocacy”…
In measuring the quality of your representation by the amount of cash stuffed in special legislative marks and arrangements intended to favor your state – why wouldn’t it be better to just let taxpayers everywhere keep more of their own resources in their pockets as opposed to sending it to Washington, D.C. in order to be “rewarded” with such powerful legislative advantage?
Incumbency is an especially important advantage that keeps those in office from being replaced by challengers who might be more aware of the needs of voters. In addition to extremely gross amounts of campaign dollars to be spent telling us how lucky we are for having the Senator we have – we’re also supposed to recognize how fortunate we are to have this powerful champion so closely aligned with the President of the United States.
The President doesn’t think that others should come to your state to attend meetings or conventions, but it’s a fantastic idea for him to come and help raise even more funds so your U.S. Senator can have more money to spend on retaining his job.
It would seem worth noting that while we’re supposed to be remembering the “advantages” of such powerful representation that we might also consider the accountability for the conditions threatening our country’s well-being.
While the current “leadership” attempts to blame and magnify faults of the past administration, we need to remember that the authority for determining outcomes of government expenditures is Congress. The same Congress that the Majority Leader from our state has been in charge of for the last couple of sessions.
Change was a major theme of the 2008 election process…ideally; Nevada voters will use the 2010 election to make some real change happen.
After attending the May 29th Tea Party, held at the Nevada Capitol and listening to the protest against the tax increases we got from the 2009 legislative process and the expected tax hikes that will be coming from Washington, D.C., I had a brief conversation with a young colleague who noted that if the tax protesters didn’t calm down between now and November of 2011 we could lose having a majority leader from our state in the driver seat of government power.
Seniority is supposed to be something which benefits your state, especially when the quality of your representation in the nation’s capitol is measured by the pork brought home. Having such authority and power at the core of the federal government is supposed to be something that we as Nevada citizens relish and gratefully remember when we enter the voting booths, returning our Senior Senator from Searchlight back to do more good on our behalf.
What if you don’t agree that the direction the country is going is the right direction? When the person is involved in steering things in the wrong direction – why are you supposed to consider it such a benefit to have such a powerful voice in influencing the outcome that you disagree with? When you are involved in an industry that this person has worked so hard to damage, currently using the federal treasury and your state’s Land Grant College to crash a viable irrigation system – please explain the advantages of such “advocacy”…
In measuring the quality of your representation by the amount of cash stuffed in special legislative marks and arrangements intended to favor your state – why wouldn’t it be better to just let taxpayers everywhere keep more of their own resources in their pockets as opposed to sending it to Washington, D.C. in order to be “rewarded” with such powerful legislative advantage?
Incumbency is an especially important advantage that keeps those in office from being replaced by challengers who might be more aware of the needs of voters. In addition to extremely gross amounts of campaign dollars to be spent telling us how lucky we are for having the Senator we have – we’re also supposed to recognize how fortunate we are to have this powerful champion so closely aligned with the President of the United States.
The President doesn’t think that others should come to your state to attend meetings or conventions, but it’s a fantastic idea for him to come and help raise even more funds so your U.S. Senator can have more money to spend on retaining his job.
It would seem worth noting that while we’re supposed to be remembering the “advantages” of such powerful representation that we might also consider the accountability for the conditions threatening our country’s well-being.
While the current “leadership” attempts to blame and magnify faults of the past administration, we need to remember that the authority for determining outcomes of government expenditures is Congress. The same Congress that the Majority Leader from our state has been in charge of for the last couple of sessions.
Change was a major theme of the 2008 election process…ideally; Nevada voters will use the 2010 election to make some real change happen.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 6/1/2009 4:28 AM 
Categories: Congress
Tags: 2010 U.S. Senate Elections Nevada
Categories: Congress
Tags: 2010 U.S. Senate Elections Nevada
Doug:
I would love the opportunity to meet with you and others as I travel the State on my campaign to replace Harry Reid in about 18 months. Last week we were in Alamo, Rachel, Hawthorne, Fallon, Elko, and Las Vegas. This week we are in the South at Logandale, Overton, and Mesquite. We are traveling the State meeting small groups to discuss concerns and ideas, drop me a line or give me a call if we can meet up some time in the near future.
Bill Parson
Candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010.
http://parsonforsenate2010.com/
parsonforsenate2010@msn.com
702-285-3822
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