May 3, 2013

• PROCESS WORKED

  It doesn’t matter what President Obama wants or what the media and the National Rifle Association say and want. It matters what the people want. So the bottom line is really simple: The senators who voted “yes” on gun control did so because the majority of their constituents told them to vote “yes.” The senators who voted “no” did so because the majority of their constituents told them to vote “no.” That is what they are supposed to do; that’s how they keep their jobs.

  The media and the NRA don’t elect politicians; people do. And Obama is not a dictator yet, so the process worked the way it was designed and supposed to work.

  After Obama won re-election, his supporters told others to “get over it and deal with it.” The people have spoken again, and they do not want more gun control, so “get over it and deal with it.”

  Our esteemed senators from Kansas voted the way most of us wanted them to vote. If they hadn’t, they would not have been elected.

  This is Kansas. Most of us like God, guns, babies and law-abiding, hardworking, taxpaying citizens who support themselves and their families. If any of you liberals don’t like any of these things, feel free to move on. There are plenty of states that would welcome you with open arms.

  Todd Robinson, Wichita

  Todd Robinson would have to muscle up mentally to be a stupid as a stick. For one, he thinks a system that produces 46% of the registered voters actually taking time to vote, means the process works. In the recent count-wide election, the turn out was 6.9%.

  Secondly, he assumes that legislators get feedback from voters in sufficient number to know what their constituents want. And he assumes that lobbyists, ideology and personal convictions have no impact on how a legislator votes. He’d be wrong, of course, but he has a right to his own ignorance.

  To Todd Robinson, I say:

  "You interesting views, namely that the people elect our public officials. Sadly, only 6.9% voted in the April 2, 2013 county-wide election. In 2010, out of 1, 706,798 registered voters in the state, only 46% voted. From that number, 795,035 voted for a person to represent us in the U.S. Senate. Jerry Moran got 587,68 votes, or 70.3%. Maybe if one consulted the 215, 270 people who voted for Johnson (26%), and add number to the more than one million who didn’t vote (54% of Kansas registered voters DID NOT vote), and also polled those who voted for Jerry Moran, we’d still find self-supporting, tax paying citizens who don’t ALL hold the same opinion about guns, god and babies. If Mister Johnson disagrees with any of those people, I don’t suggest he leave Kansas, but that he stay here, and learn how we might all relish our heritage, our diversity, and our love for Kansas.”

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