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Governor Fletcher TAKING BAD HABITS BACK HOME

Some time ago, Congress found a way to blow off all those pesky constituents who found email to be a quick and inexpensive means of communicating with their elected officials.  Hey, if your congressman wanted your stinkin’ opinion, he’d ask for it (just before ignoring it). 

Anyway, rather than actually receive, read and respond to easily submitted emails, congress-critters set up “web forms” on their websites, forcing people to visit their online propaganda machines and filling out a “form” in order to petition their government.  Oh, yeah.  And you MUST include a lot of personal information which can be recorded and tracked by Big Brother for future reference.

Get ready to suffer similar indignities and roadblocks at the state and local level.  For example, former Kentucky Rep. Ernie Fletcher was recently elected governor there.  And just this week emails to the governor began getting kicked back with an auto-responder instructing the great unwashed to...yup, go to the governor’s website if they wish to communicate with his highness.  “If you choose not to visit the site above,” says the notice, “we will not be able to receive your comments.”

Well, of course they *could;* they’ve just chosen not to.

This apparently isn’t the only bad habit the former congressman brought home after drinking the water in our nation’s capital for a few years.  One of his first acts as governor has been to embrace the notion of raising the tobacco tax on Kentucky residents...proving once again: You can take the boy out of Washington, but you can’t take the Washington out of the boy.

From Chuck Muth’s news and views 3/20/04

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