On occasion I’ve been moved to write my elected officials. They may think I’m something of a crank, but that’s to be expected when my politics don’t match theirs. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
I may not care for Senator Richard Burr, but at least he writes back. I cannot say the same for Senator Liddy Dole, who has never<\/i> written back. (And Representative Brad Miller–he sends me e-mails<\/i>.)<\/p>\n
So, is Senator Dole reading my letters and paying attention to her constituents? I’m not the only person to wonder–expense reports filed by Dole show that she visited North Carolina once<\/i> during a recent six-month period<\/a>. This article in the Winston-Salem Journal reads:<\/p>\n According to the Report to the Secretary of the Senate, an expense report issued twice a year that details expenses by Senate offices, Dole made one trip to North Carolina during a six-month period, and Burr traveled home nearly every weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Seems like someone’s out to lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On occasion I’ve been moved to write my elected officials. They may think I’m something of a crank, but that’s to be expected when my politics don’t match theirs. \ud83d\ude09 I may not care for Senator Richard Burr, but at least he writes back. I cannot say the same for Senator Liddy Dole, who hasContinue reading “On Senator Liddy Dole”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[414,156,4108,4129],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-liddy-dole","tag-north-carolina","tag-politics","tag-senate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}